[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 12, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1685]
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                             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. 31, 
Stephen Miran, of New York, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic 
Advisers.
         John Thune, Ted Budd, Tom Cotton, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Tommy 
           Tuberville, Katie Britt, Ashley B. Moody, Pete 
           Ricketts, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Dan Sullivan, 
           Roger F. Wicker, Cynthia M. Lummis, Eric Schmitt, Joni 
           Ernst, John Hoeven, Jerry Moran, Lindsey Graham.

  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 Stephen Miran, of New York, to be Chairman of the Council 
of Economic Advisers, 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 Senator is necessarily absent: the 
Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Justice).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     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
     Young

                                NAYS--45

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

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Duckworth
     Justice
     Sanders
  (Mr. RICKETTS assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sheehy). On this vote, the yeas are 52, 
the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.