[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 195 (Tuesday, November 28, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5623-S5624]
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 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. 117, Jose Javier Rodriguez, of 
     Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
         Charles E. Schumer, Tina Smith, Tammy Baldwin, Alex 
           Padilla, Michael F. Bennet, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Christopher Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Jack Reed, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Van 
           Hollen, Tammy Duckworth, 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 Jose Javier Rodriguez, of Florida, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Labor, 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 Colorado (Mr. 
Hickenlooper), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) 
are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. Graham).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 44, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 318 Ex.]

                                YEAS--44

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

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                             NOT VOTING--5

     Graham
     Hickenlooper
     Markey
     Ossoff
     Warnock
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 
51. The motion is not agreed to.
  The motion was rejected.
  The majority leader.


                          Motion to Reconsider

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.

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