[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 5, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3971]
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. 590, Stephanie Sanders Sullivan, of 
     Maryland, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, 
     Class of Career Minister, to be Representative of the United 
     States of America to the African Union, with the rank and 
     status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
         Charles E. Schumer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Ben 
           Ray Lujan, Tammy Baldwin, John W. Hickenlooper, Brian 
           Schatz, Christopher Murphy, Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Margaret Wood Hassan, Alex Padilla, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Sherrod Brown, Tina Smith, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Jeff Merkley.

  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 Stephanie Sanders Sullivan, of Maryland, a Career Member 
of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the African Union, 
with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary, 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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Hagerty), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     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
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Booker
     Braun
     Britt
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Menendez
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 
53, the nays are 40, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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