[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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