[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S1153]
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. 57, Amy Lefkowitz Solomon, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Ben Ray 
           Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Martin Heinrich, Christopher 
           Murphy, Tammy Baldwin, 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 Amy Lefkowitz Solomon, of the District of Columbia, to be 
an Assistant Attorney General, 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 New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) are 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 40, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Ex.]

                                YEAS--58

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

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). The yeas are 58, the nays are 40.
  The motion is agreed to.

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