[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 11, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1649]
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 senior assistant 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. 28, Abigail Slater, of the District 
     of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
         John Thune, Jim Justice, Bill Cassidy, Mike Rounds, Ted 
           Budd, Tom Cotton, Jon Husted, Tim Sheehy, Deb Fischer, 
           Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Markwayne Mullin, Steve 
           Daines, Ashley Moody, Ted Cruz, Tim Scott of South 
           Carolina, Eric Schmitt.

  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 Abigail Slater, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, 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 Missouri (Mr. Hawley) and the Senator from West Virginia 
(Mr. Justice).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) 
and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 114 Ex.]

                                YEAS--77

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Padilla
     Peters
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schiff
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--19

     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Van Hollen
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Duckworth
     Hawley
     Justice
     Slotkin
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 
19.
  The motion is agreed to.

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