[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 181 (Thursday, November 2, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5327]
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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. 333, Lt. Gen. Christopher J. 
     Mahoney for appointment as Assistant Commandant of the Marine 
     Corps and appointment to the grade indicated while assigned 
     to a position of importance and responsibility under title 
     10, U.S.C., sections 601 and 8044: to be General.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Alex Padilla, Tim Kaine, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Gary C. Peters, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Christopher A. Coons, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Richard Blumenthal, Mark R. Warner, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Edward J. Markey, Mazie K. Hirono, Angus S. 
           King, Jr., Sherrod Brown, 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 the following named officer for appointment as Assistant 
Commandant of the Marine Corps and appointment to the grade indicated 
while assigned to a position of importance and responsibility under 
title 10, U.S.C., sections 601 and 8044: to be General, Lt. Gen. 
Christopher J. Mahoney, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
   Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) 
would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 91, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 290 Ex.]

                                YEAS--91

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

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Braun
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hyde-Smith
     Lee
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 91, the nays are 0.
  The motion is agreed to.

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