[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 20 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S518]
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. 10, Christopher Wright, of 
     Colorado, to be Secretary of Energy.
         John Thune, Markwayne Mullin, James C. 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 Christopher Wright, of Colorado, to be Secretary of 
Energy, 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), 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 27 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

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

                                NAYS--35

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Booker
     Fetterman
     Ossoff
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Moody). The yeas are 62, the nays are 55.
  The motion is agreed to.

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