[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 175 (Tuesday, October 24, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5132]
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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 nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 364, Michael G. Whitaker, of 
     Vermont, to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration for the term of five years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Maria Cantwell, Christopher A. Coons, 
           John W. Hickenlooper, Sherrod Brown, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Tim Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse, Martin 
           Heinrich, Christopher Murphy, Alex Padilla, Gary C. 
           Peters, Chris Van Hollen, Brian Schatz, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Patty Murray, Catherine Cortez Masto.

  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 Michael G. Whitaker, of Vermont, to be Administrator of 
the Federal Aviation Administration for the term of five years, 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 California (Mr. Padilla) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), 
and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Scott) would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 94, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 262 Ex.]

                                YEAS--94

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Crapo
     Hoeven
     Padilla
     Romney
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Welch). On this vote, the yeas are 94, the 
nays are 0.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all 
postcloture time be considered expired at 5 p.m. today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. DURBIN. For information of the Senate, Members should expect two 
rollcall votes starting at 5 p.m.