[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 12, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3225-S3226]
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 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. 975, Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, 
     to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
     Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from 
     February 1, 2018.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Ben Ray Lujan, 
           Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Tina Smith, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A. 
           Coons, Alex Padilla, Chris Van Hollen, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Tim Kaine.


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  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 Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of 
fourteen years from February 1, 2018, 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 Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the 
Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 27, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 247 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

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

                                NAYS--27

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Blumenthal
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Moran
     Risch
     Sasse
     Schumer
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). The yeas are 66, the nays are 27.
  The motion is agreed to.

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