[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4365]
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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. 198, H.R. 4366, a bill making 
     appropriations for military construction, the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
         Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Alex 
           Padilla, Richard J. Durbin, Chris Van Hollen, Martin 
           Heinrich, Debbie Stabenow, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Christopher Murphy, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Margaret 
           Wood Hassan, Christopher A. Coons, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Tammy Duckworth, Benjamin L. Cardin.

  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 H.R. 4366, a bill making appropriations for 
military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, 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 Illinois (Ms. 
Duckworth), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the 
Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Ex.]

                                YEAS--85

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--12

     Braun
     Budd
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Hawley
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Ricketts
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Duckworth
     Markey
     Padilla
  (Ms. KLOBUCHAR assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Welch). On this vote, the yeas are 85, the 
nays are 12.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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