[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 89 (Wednesday, May 22, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3838]
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. 552, Melissa Griffin Dalton, of 
     Virginia, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Richard J. Durbin, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Tammy Baldwin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Brian 
           Schatz, Cory A. Booker, Mark R. Warner, Patty Murray, 
           Gary C. Peters, Elizabeth Warren, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Angus S. King, 
           Jr., Debbie Stabenow, John W. Hickenlooper.

  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 Melissa Griffin Dalton, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary of the Air Force, 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 West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), 
and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 180 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Manchin
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mullin
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 
56, the nays are 38.
  The motion was agreed to.

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