[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 167 (Wednesday, November 13, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6542]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). 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. 620, David Huitema, of Maryland, to 
     be Director of the Office of Government Ethics for a term of 
     five years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Peter Welch, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Tina Smith, Richard Blumenthal, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Tammy Duckworth, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, 
           Tammy Baldwin, Tim Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Christopher Murphy, Brian Schatz, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Benjamin L. Cardin, Alex Padilla.

  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 David Huitema, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office 
of Government Ethics for a term of five years, 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 Arizona (Ms. Sinema) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 259 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--48

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Sinema
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 50, 
the nays are 48, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The chair would like to announce under the 
previous order with respect to the Hawley nomination, the motion to 
reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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