[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 49 (Thursday, March 16, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S815]
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                             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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 25, S. 316, a bill to repeal the 
     authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.
         Charles E. Schumer, Tim Kaine, Robert Menendez, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Ron Wyden, Christopher Murphy, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Jack Reed, Mazie K. Hirono, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Richard J. Durbin, Cory A. 
           Booker, Mark R. Warner, Jeff Merkley, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Margaret Wood Hassan.

  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 
motion to proceed to S. 316, a bill to repeal the authorizations for 
use of military force against Iraq, 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), and the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 27, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Leg.]

                                YEAS--68

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Braun
     Brown
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schmitt
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--27

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Mullin
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Barrasso
     Cruz
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     McConnell
  (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 68, 
the nays are 27.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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