[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 102 (Monday, June 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2045]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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. 157, Elizabeth Allen, of New York, 
     to be Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Mazie K. Hirono, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Thomas R. Carper, Tammy Baldwin, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Peter Welch, Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith, 
           Alex Padilla, Debbie Stabenow, Tammy Duckworth, Chris 
           Van Hollen, Ben Ray Lujan.

  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 Elizabeth Allen, of New York, to be Under Secretary of 
State for Public Diplomacy, 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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), and the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) 
would have voted ``no.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 29, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

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

                                NAYS--29

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (SC)
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Barrasso
     Booker
     Braun
     Hyde-Smith
     Scott (FL)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 66, 
the nays are 29.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Minnesota.

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