[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 94 (Monday, June 3, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3926]
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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 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. 647, Christopher T. Hanson, of 
     Michigan, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
     for the term of five years expiring June 30, 2029. 
     (Reappointment.)
         Charles E. Schumer, Thomas R. Carper, Laphonza R. Butler, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Alex Padilla, Brian Schatz, Debbie 
           Stabenow, John W. Hickenlooper, Patty Murray, Tina 
           Smith, Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, Christopher 
           Murphy, Jack Reed, Richard J. Durbin, Angus S. King, 
           Jr., Gary C. Peters.

  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 T. Hanson, of Michigan, to be a Member of the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the term of five years expiring June 
30, 2029 (Reappointment), 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 Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator 
from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Murphy) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), 
the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 15, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 183 Ex.]

                                YEAS--74

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--15

     Britt
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lee
     Paul
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Braun
     Fetterman
     Hoeven
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Risch
     Rubio
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 74, 
the nays are 15, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.