[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S785]
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. 65, Eric M. Garcetti, of 
     California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and 
     Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Republic of India.
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Christopher Murphy, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Richard J. Durbin, Tim Kaine, 
           Mark R. Warner, Cory A. Booker, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Chris Van Hollen, Amy Klobuchar, Peter Welch, Alex 
           Padilla.

  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 Eric M. Garcetti, of California, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Republic of India, 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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--42

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Barrasso
     Booker
     Cruz
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     McConnell
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 
52, the nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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