[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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