[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S793]
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 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. 18, Laura Taylor-Kale, of 
     California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense (New 
     Position).
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper, 
           Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Edward J. Markey, Alex Padilla, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Catherine Cortez Masto.

  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 Laura Taylor-Kale, of California, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense, 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 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), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), and the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--26

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Barrasso
     Cruz
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     McConnell
     Young
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 68, 
the nays are 26.
  The motion is agreed to.

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