[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 29, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S461]
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 assistant 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. 9, Douglas Burgum, of North Dakota, 
     to be Secretary of the Interior.
         John Thune, Markwayne Mullin, Jim Justice, Tom Cotton, 
           John Barrasso, David McCormick, Steve Daines, Joni 
           Ernst, Roger Marshall, Deb Fischer, Chuck Grassley, 
           Bernie Moreno, Ted Budd, John Kennedy, John Boozman, 
           Tommy Tuberville, Cindy Hyde-Smith.

  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 Douglas Burgum, of North Dakota, to be Secretary of the 
Interior, 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) 
and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 20, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Padilla
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Warnock
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--20

     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Coons
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Hirono
     Kim
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Booker
     Ossoff
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 78, 
the nays are 20.
  The motion is agreed to.

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