[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5907]
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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 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. 410, Harry Coker, Jr., of Kansas, 
     to be National Cyber Director.
         Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jack Reed, Angus S. 
           King, Jr., Michael F. Bennet, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Tim 
           Kaine, Chris Van Hollen, Mazie K. Hirono, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Jeanne Shaheen, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mark Kelly.
  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 Harry Coker, Jr., of Kansas, to be National Cyber 
Director, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 337 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

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

                                NAYS--40

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Young
       
  (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 59, the 
nays are 40.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Montana.
  Mr. TESTER. I ask unanimous consent to be allowed to speak up to 15 
minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection.