[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 99 (Wednesday, June 12, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4033]
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 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. 668, Judy W. Chang, of 
     Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
     Regulatory Commission for a term expiring June 30, 2029.
         Charles E. Schumer, Joe Manchin III, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Martin Heinrich, Jeanne Shaheen, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Alex Padilla, Mazie K. Hirono, Ben Ray Lujan, 
           Maria Cantwell, Peter Welch, Jack Reed, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Angus S. King, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, Mark 
           Kelly, 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 Judy W. Chang, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a term expiring June 30, 2029, 
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 Ohio (Mr. Brown), the 
Senator from California (Ms. Butler), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from 
Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 31, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--31

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Brown
     Butler
     Menendez
     Sanders
     Sinema
     Sullivan
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). On this vote, the yeas are 63, 
the nays are 31, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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