[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 21, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4908]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The senior assistant 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. 1097, Arati Prabhakar, of 
     California, to be Director of the Office of Science and 
     Technology Policy.
         Charles E. Schumer, Cory A. Booker, Tim Kaine, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed, Chris Van 
           Hollen, Alex Padilla, Debbie Stabenow, Ben Ray Lujan, 
           Christopher Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tammy Baldwin, Edward J. 
           Markey, Raphael G. Warnock.

  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 Arati Prabhakar, of California, to be Director of the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative 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 North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 345 Ex.]

                                YEAS--58

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

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Baldwin
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Risch
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 58, the 
nays are 38.
  The motion is agreed to.

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