[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 30, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S1855]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CLOTURE MOTION
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will
state.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
Cloture Motion
We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the
provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate,
do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination
of Executive Calendar No. 667, David Weil, of Massachusetts,
to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department
of Labor.
Charles E. Schumer, Brian Schatz, Jack Reed, Angus S.
King, Jr., Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, Raphael
G. Warnock, Jacky Rosen, Tim Kaine, Patty Murray,
Margaret Wood Hassan, Tammy Duckworth, Alex Padilla,
Tammy Baldwin, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher A. Coons.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent, the mandatory
quorum call has been waived.
The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the
nomination of David Weil, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the
Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, shall be brought to a
close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 53, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 120 Ex.]
YEAS--47
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Leahy
Lujan
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--53
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Kelly
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Manchin
Marshall
McConnell
Moran
Murkowski
Paul
Portman
Risch
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 47,
the nays are 53.
The motion is rejected.
The majority leader.
Order of Procedure
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate now
vote on the motions to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar Nos. 718,
717, and 716; that the remaining votes tonight be 10-minute votes; that
if cloture is invoked on any of these nominations, all post-cloture
time be considered expired and the Senate vote on confirmation of the
nominations at a time to be determined by the majority leader or his
designee following consultation with the Republican leader.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. SCHUMER. Members, we have three more votes coming up. If we stay
in our seats and stay close, we can get them done quickly. So, please,
hang around.
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