[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 96 (Monday, June 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2779]
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                             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. 477, Alex Wagner, of the District 
     of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.
         Charles E. Schumer, Tina Smith, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Mark Kelly, Richard J. Durbin, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Gary C. 
           Peters, Chris Van Hollen, Edward J. Markey, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Jack Reed.

  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 Alex Wagner, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Ossoff), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from 
New York (Mr. Schumer), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the 
Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Young) would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 17, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Ex.]

                                YEAS--69

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--17

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Risch
     Scott (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Cardin
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Rubio
     Schumer
     Sullivan
     Toomey
     Warnock
     Young
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 69, 
the nays are 17.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Colorado.