    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 2025)]
    [Senate]
    [Pages S1307-S1308]
    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. 21, Daniel Driscoll, of North
         Carolina, to be Secretary of the Army.
             John Thune, John R. Curtis, Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy,
               Marsha Blackburn, Eric Schmitt, John Boozman, Mike
               Crapo, Mike Rounds, Tommy

    [[Page S1308]]

               Tuberville, Jim Justice, Markwayne Mullin, John
               Barrasso, Cindy Hyde-Smith, James Lankford, Ted Budd,
               Mike Lee.

      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 Daniel Driscoll, of North Carolina, to be Secretary of
    the Army, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the
    Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina
    (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
      Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young)
    would have voted ``yea.''
      Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr.
    Whitehouse), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), and the Senator
    from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), are necessarily absent.
      The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows:

                           [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Ex.]

                                    YEAS--66

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

                                    NAYS--28

         Alsobrooks
         Baldwin
         Blunt Rochester
         Booker
         Cantwell
         Coons
         Duckworth
         Gillibrand
         Hirono
         Kim
         King
         Lujan
         Markey
         Merkley
         Murphy
         Murray
         Ossoff
         Padilla
         Sanders
         Schatz
         Schiff
         Schumer
         Slotkin
         Smith
         Van Hollen
         Warren
         Welch
         Wyden

                                 NOT VOTING--6

         Cramer
         Graham
         Kaine
         Warnock
         Whitehouse
         Young
      The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). The yeas are 66, the nays are
    28.
      The motion was agreed to.

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