[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 8, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S680]
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 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. 61, Daniel I. Werfel, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
     for the term expiring November 12, 2027.
         Charles E. Schumer, Ron Wyden, Catherine Cortez Masto, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C. 
           Peters, Jack Reed, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Ben Ray 
           Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Christopher A. Coons, Martin 
           Heinrich, Christopher Murphy, Tammy Baldwin.

  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 Daniel I. Werfel, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the term expiring November 12, 
2027, 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 Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennslyania (Mr. Fetterman), and the 
Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 44, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--44

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Cardin
     Carper
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Van Hollen
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
44.
  The motion is agreed to.

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