[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 209 (Tuesday, December 19, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6039-S6040]
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. 430, Christopher Charles Fonzone, 
     of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Alex Padilla, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Mazie K. Hirono, Chris Van 
           Hollen, Michael F. Bennet, Mark Kelly, Robert P. Casey, 
           Jr., Tim Kaine, Patty Murray, Angus S. King, Jr., Jack 
           Reed, Cory A. Booker.

  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 Christopher Charles Fonzone, of Pennsylvania, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) 
and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the 
Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from 
North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Budd) would have voted ``nay.''
  The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Iowa 
(Ms. Ernst), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), 
the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator 
from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Mullin).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Marshall) would have voted ``nay.''
  The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Schmitt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr.

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Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) 
would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 18, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 348 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--18

     Britt
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Ricketts
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                            NOT VOTING-- 33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Padilla
     Paul
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schatz
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
18.
  The motion is agreed to.