[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 183 (Monday, November 6, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5355]
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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 assistant bill 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. 372, Monica M. Bertagnolli, of 
     Massachusetts, to be Director of National Institutes of 
     Health.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Tammy Duckworth, Mark Kelly, Tina Smith, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Robert P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A. Coons, Tim Kaine, 
           Christopher Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Chris Van 
           Hollen, 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 Monica M. Bertagnolli, of Massachusetts, to be Director 
of the National Institutes of Health, 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 Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from 
New York (Mr. Schumer) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the 
Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 292 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--32

     Blackburn
     Budd
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     McConnell
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Barrasso
     Braun
     Britt
     Fetterman
     Hoeven
     Ossoff
     Risch
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 59, the 
nays are 32.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.