[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 18, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2565-S2566]
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 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. 687, Elizabeth Schoff Watson, of 
     Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
         Charles E. Schumer, John W. Hickenlooper, Jacky Rosen, 
           Jack Reed, Tim Kaine, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Tina 
           Smith, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Stabenow, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Mazie K. Hirono.

  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 Elizabeth Schoff Watson, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Labor, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), and the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--47

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Markey
     Rosen
     Van Hollen
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). On this vote, the yeas are 
50, the nays are 47.

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  The motion is agreed to.

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