[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6347]
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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 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. 550, Michael Sfraga, of Alaska, to 
     be Ambassador at Large for Arctic Affairs.
         Charles E. Schumer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Raphael G. 
           Warnock, Ben Ray Lujan, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Tammy Baldwin, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Robert P. Casey, Jr., Angus S. King, Jr., Michael F. 
           Bennet, Mark Kelly, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Chris 
           Van Hollen, Debbie Stabenow, Brian Schatz.

  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 Michael Sfraga, of Alaska, to be Ambassador at Large for 
Arctic Affairs, 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 California (Ms. Butler), 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), and the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) are necessarily absent.
   Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. 
Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The yeas and nays resulted --yeas 56, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 250 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Helmy
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Merkley
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--36

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Butler
     Cardin
     Coons
     Cotton
     Hyde-Smith
     Sullivan
     Tillis
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). The yeas are 56, the nays are 36.
  The motion is agreed to.

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