[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 184 (Wednesday, December 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6946]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The bill 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. 783, Lauren McGarity McFerran, of 
     the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National 
     Labor Relations Board for the term of five years expiring 
     December 16, 2029. (Reappointment)
         Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Mark R. Warner, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Martin Henrich, Jon Tester, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Richard J. Durbin, Jack Reed, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Amy Klobuchar, Maria Cantwell, Gary C. Peters, Benjamin 
           L. Cardin, Ron Wyden, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sherrod 
           Brown, Brian Schatz, Sheldon Whitehouse.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Lauren McGarity McFerran, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of five 
years expiring December 16, 2029 (Reappointment), shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Marshall).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 320 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--50

     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
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Marshall
       
  (Mr. SCHATZ assumed the Chair.)
  (The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 
49, the nays are 50.
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.