[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S391-S392]
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 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. 6, Sean Duffy, of Wisconsin, to be
Secretary of Transportation.
John Thune, Shelley Moore Capito, Jon Husted, Tom Cotton,
Mike Rounds, Jim Justice, Mike Crapo, Ted Budd, James
Lankford, Dan Sullivan, Todd Young, Cynthia M. Lummis,
Katie Britt, John R. Curtis, Rick Scott of Florida,
Thom Tillis, Ron Johnson.
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 Sean Duffy, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary of
Transportation, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the
Senator from Montana (Mr. Sheehy).
Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Montana (Mr. Sheehy)
would have voted ``yea.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) and
the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows:
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[Rollcall Vote No. 20 Ex.]
YEAS--97
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Banks
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Cantwell
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Gallego
Gillibrand
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kaine
Kelly
Kennedy
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Lee
Lujan
Lummis
Markey
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Merkley
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Mullin
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Paul
Peters
Reed
Ricketts
Risch
Rosen
Rounds
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schmitt
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wicker
Wyden
Young
NOT VOTING--3
Ossoff
Padilla
Sheehy
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 97, the nays are 0.
The motion is agreed to.
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