[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4347]
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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 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. 261, Tanya J. Bradsher, of 
     Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jon Tester, Raphael G. Warnock, Angus 
           S. King, Jr., Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine, Tina Smith, 
           Mark Kelly, Debbie Stabenow, Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Chris Van Hollen, Alex 
           Padilla, Gary C. Peters, Richard Blumenthal, Margaret 
           Wood Hassan.

  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 Tanya J. Bradsher, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. 
Duckworth), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from 
California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 223 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--44

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

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Braun
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Risch
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 44.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.