[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 5, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3879-S3880]
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 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. 256, Philip Nathan Jefferson, of 
     North Carolina, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors 
     of the Federal Reserve System for a term of four years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Mark Kelly, Jack Reed, John W. Hickenlooper, Elizabeth 
           Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeff Merkley, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. Cardin, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Tina Smith, Edward J. Markey, Tim Kaine, Tammy 
           Baldwin.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it of the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North Carolina, to be Vice 
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a 
term of four 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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 10, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Ex.]

                                YEAS--83

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Boozman
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin

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     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--10

     Braun
     Hawley
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Paul
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Booker
     Hoeven
     Murkowski
     Risch
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). On this vote, the yeas are 83, 
the nays are 10.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.