[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 77 (Monday, May 9, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2375-S2376]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The legislative clerk read the cloture motion 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. 708, Ann Claire Phillips, of 
     Virginia, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration.

[[Page S2376]]

         Charles E. Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mark Kelly, Jack 
           Reed, Catherine Cortez Masto, Patty Murray, Margaret 
           Wood Hassan, Mazie K. Hirono, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Robert P. Casey, Jr., Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Patrick J. 
           Leahy, Ron Wyden, Amy Klobuchar, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Jeff Merkley.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 Ann Claire Phillips, of Virginia, to be Administrator of 
the Maritime Administration, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The Senior Assistant Executive Clerk called the roll.
   Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from 
California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
   Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
   The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 20, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Ex.]

                                YEAS--72

      Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--20

      Barrasso
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tuberville

                              NOT VOTING--8

      Cardin
     Cassidy
     Kennedy
     Lummis
     Murray
     Padilla
     Shelby
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 72, 
the nays are 20.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.