[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 117 (Monday, July 10, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2272]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  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 nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 178, Xochitl Torres Small, of New 
     Mexico, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
         Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Tammy Baldwin, Patty 
           Murray, Tim Kaine, Christopher Murphy, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Alex Padilla, Elizabeth Warren, Tina Smith, Brian 
           Schatz, Benjamin L. Cardin, Mark R. Warner, Martin 
           Heinrich, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Raphael G. Warnock.

  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 Xochitl Torres Small, of New Mexico, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Agriculture, 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. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), 
the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from 
New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 
the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 8, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 173 Ex.]

                                YEAS--79

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--8

     Blackburn
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Paul
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Barrasso
     Durbin
     King
     Manchin
     Murkowski
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Schatz
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sullivan
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 79, 
the nays are 8.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                                  NATO

  Mr. SCHUMER. First, a few words on just a good recent development. We 
have just heard that Sweden will be allowed to join NATO, that Mr. 
Erdogan has released his hold, and that Sweden will be joining NATO.
  The fact that Sweden is joining NATO is great news for the West. It 
strengthens the Western alliance significantly, and it shows Mr. Putin 
that the West is strong, united, and growing stronger against his 
aggression in Ukraine.
  Any thought that the West is giving up, any thought that the West is 
divided, is shown to be false by today's development of Sweden joining 
NATO and of Turkey relenting.
  So this is good news for freedom. This is good news against the 
forces of autocracy, and it is very good news for a strong Western 
alliance.
  I want to salute President Biden, who has worked so much in the 
foreign policy sphere--as well as domestic--but speaking about the 
foreign policy sphere, he has done so much to advance the United 
States' interests. He has a real grasp of it, a real handle on it, and 
is very effective. This is victory for America, for the West, for 
freedom, and for President Biden.

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