[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 143 (Wednesday, September 6, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4224-S4225]
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. 257, Adriana Debora Kugler, of 
     Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the 
     Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen 
     years from February 1, 2012.
          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 the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Adriana Debora Kugler, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term 
of fourteen years from February 1, 2012, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

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                                NAYS--45

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

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Booker
     Cardin
     Cotton
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 52, the nays 45.
  The motion is agreed to.

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