[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 40 (Monday, March 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1455-S1456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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    PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT OF 2025--Motion To 
                            Proceed--Resumed

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to legislative session and resume consideration of the 
following motion, which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 2, S. 9, to provide that 
     for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the 
     Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be 
     recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology 
     and genetics at birth.


                             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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 2, S.9, a bill to provide that for 
     purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the 
     Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be 
     recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology 
     and genetics at birth.
         John Thune, Eric Schmitt, Marsha Blackburn, Joni Ernst, 
           Ted Budd, Katie Britt, David McCormick, Bernie Moreno, 
           Rick Scott of Florida, Tommy

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           Tuberville, James Lankford, Markwayne Mullin, Jim 
           Justice, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cynthia M. Lummis, John 
           Barrasso, Mike Rounds.

  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 
motion to proceed to S. 9, a bill to provide that for purposes of 
determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 
1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's 
reproductive biology and genetics at birth, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), and the Senator from Wyoming, 
(Ms. Lummis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--45

     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
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Capito
     Lummis
     Slotkin
     Welch
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 51, 
the nays are 45.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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