    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2025)]
    [Senate]
    [Pages S1423-S1424]
    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 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. 24, Linda McMahon, of Connecticut,
         to be Secretary of Education.
             John Thune, Cindy Hyde-Smith, James E. Risch, Katie
               Britt, Tommy Tuberville, James Lankford, Markwayne
               Mullin, Marsha Blackburn, Tom Cotton, John R. Curtis,
               Bernie Moreno, Tim Sheehy, Mike Rounds, Joni Ernst,
               Roger F. Wicker, David McCormick, Rick Scott of
               Florida.

    [[Page S1424]]

      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 Linda McMahon, of Connecticut, to be Secretary of
    Education, shall be brought to a close?
      The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
      The clerk will call the roll.
      The bill clerk called the roll.
      Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the
    Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from Indiana
    (Mr. Young).
      Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young)
    would have voted ``yea.''
      The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows:

                           [Rollcall Vote No. 98 Ex.]

                                    YEAS--51

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

                                    NAYS--47

         Alsobrooks
         Baldwin
         Bennet
         Blumenthal
         Blunt Rochester
         Booker
         Cantwell
         Coons
         Cortez Masto
         Duckworth
         Durbin
         Fetterman
         Gallego
         Gillibrand
         Hassan
         Heinrich
         Hickenlooper
         Hirono
         Kaine
         Kelly
         Kim
         King
         Klobuchar
         Lujan
         Markey
         Merkley
         Murphy
         Murray
         Ossoff
         Padilla
         Peters
         Reed
         Rosen
         Sanders
         Schatz
         Schiff
         Schumer
         Shaheen
         Slotkin
         Smith
         Van Hollen
         Warner
         Warnock
         Warren
         Welch
         Whitehouse
         Wyden

                                 NOT VOTING--2

         Cramer
         Young

      The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are
    47.
      The motion is agreed to.
      The majority leader.

                               Order of Business

      Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all
    postcloture time on the McMahon nomination be expired; further, that
    the Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination at 5:30 p.m. on
    Monday, March 3; finally, if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be
    considered made and laid upon the table and the President be
    immediately notified of the Senate's action.
      The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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