[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 113 (Monday, July 11, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3197-S3198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The bill 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. 599, Ashish S. Vazirani, of 
     Maryland, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Jacky Rosen, Margaret Wood Hassan, Mark Kelly, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Angus S. King, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich, 
           Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Chris Van Hollen.

  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 Ashish S. Vazirani, of Maryland, to be a Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense, 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 Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from New York (Mr. 
Schumer), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from 
Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer) would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 20, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 243 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--20

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Blumenthal
     Cantwell
     Cramer
     Kennedy
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Murkowski
     Ossoff
     Risch
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Sinema
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 67, 
the nays are 20.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.

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