[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 3, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4909-S4910]
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 clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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. 319, James C. O'Brien, of Nebraska, 
     to be an Assistant Secretary of State (European and Eurasian 
     Affairs).
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher A. Coons, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Richard J. Durbin, Gary C. Peters, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Christopher Murphy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Edward J. Markey, Alex Padilla, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff 
           Merkley, Margaret Wood Hassan, Peter Welch.

  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 James C. O'Brien, of Nebraska, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State (European and Eurasian Affairs), 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 Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator 
from Michigan (Mrs. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Risch) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 248 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Tester
     Tillis

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     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--32

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Fetterman
     Murray
     Risch
     Scott (SC)
     Stabenow
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 63, the nays are 
32.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Kansas.