[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 9, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S1562]
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 bill 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. 71, L. Felice Gorordo, of Florida, 
     to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the 
     International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a 
     term of two years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Catherine Cortez Masto, Sherrod 
           Brown, Jack Reed, Benjamin L. Cardin, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Michael F. Bennet, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, Christopher Murphy, Patty 
           Murray, Tammy Duckworth, 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 
nomination of L. Felice Gorordo, of Florida, to be United States 
Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development for a term of two years, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay''.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Barrasso
     Feinstein
     Hoeven
     Paul
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 53, the nays are 
42.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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