[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 31, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5659-S5660]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CLOTURE MOTION
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). 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. 582, Dorothy Camille Shea, of North
Carolina, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service,
Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Deputy Representative of
the United States of America to the United Nations, with the
rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary and the Deputy Representative of the United
States of America in the Security Council of the United
Nations.
Charles E. Schumer, Laphonza R. Butler, Tim Kaine, Jack
Reed, Debbie Stabenow, Richard Blumenthal, Mark Kelly,
Mazie K. Hirono, John W. Hickenlooper, Angus S. King,
Jr., Tammy Baldwin, Christopher Murphy, Brian Schatz,
Chris Van Hollen, Jeanne Shaheen, Christopher A. Coons,
Sheldon Whitehouse.
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 Dorothy Camille Shea, of North Carolina, a Career Member
of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-
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Counselor, to be Deputy Representative of the United States of America
to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and the Deputy Representative of the
United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations,
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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker),
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from West
Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and the Senator from Virginia
(Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Vance).
Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr.
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 36, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 228 Ex.]
YEAS--54
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Brown
Budd
Butler
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gillibrand
Graham
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
McConnell
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Rounds
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Sullivan
Tester
Tillis
Van Hollen
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
Young
NAYS--36
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Braun
Britt
Capito
Cassidy
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
Moran
Mullin
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rubio
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Thune
Tuberville
Wicker
NOT VOTING--10
Booker
Fetterman
Hoeven
Manchin
Menendez
Romney
Scott (SC)
Stabenow
Vance
Warner
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 54,
the nays are 36.
The motion is agreed to.
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