[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2977]
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                             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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 119, S. 2226, a bill to authorize 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities 
     of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
     for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to 
     prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
     and for other purposes.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Patty Murray, Gary C. 
           Peters, Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Margaret 
           Wood Hassan, Jon Ossoff, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Chris 
           Van Hollen, Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Mark Kelly, Debbie Stabenow, Brian Schatz, Mark R. 
           Warner, Catherine Cortez Masto, 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 
motion to proceed to S. 2226, a bill to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes, 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 Maryland (Mr. Cardin) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Ex.]

                                YEAS--72

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--25

     Blackburn
     Booker
     Budd
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Markey
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Cardin
     Mullin
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 72, the 
nays are 25.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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