[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 21, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4907-S4908]
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. 1055, Amanda Bennett, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be Chief Executive Officer of the 
     United States Agency for Global Media.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Christopher 
           Murphy, Ben Ray Lujan, Chris Van Hollen, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Tina Smith, Michael F. Bennet, Jacky Rosen, Edward J. 
           Markey, Angus S. King, Jr.

  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 Amanda Bennett, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief 
Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media, 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 Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
  The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 37, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 344 Ex.]

                                YEAS--60

     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--37

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

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Baldwin
     Crapo
     Risch
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 
37, and the motion is agreed to.

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