[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 118 (Tuesday, July 11, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2298]
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. 56, Rosemarie Hidalgo, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be Director of the Violence Against 
     Women Office, Department of Justice.
         Charles E. Schumer, Ben Ray Lujan, Peter Welch, Tina 
           Smith, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Alex Padilla, Raphael G. Warnock, Christopher Murphy, 
           John W. Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Edward J. Markey, Jack 
           Reed, Mazie K. Hirono.

  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 Rosemarie Hidalgo, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Director of the Violence Against Women Office, Department of Justice, 
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. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Maine 
(Mr. King), 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 Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), 
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have noted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 175 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Barrasso
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     King
     Ricketts
     Shaheen
     Sullivan
     Tillis
  (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the 
nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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