[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 48 (Thursday, March 13, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1726]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 30, William Pulte, of Florida, to 
     be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency for a term 
     of five years.
         John Thune, Tim Sheehy, Lindsey Graham, Cynthia M. 
           Lummis, Dan Sullivan, Ashley B. Moody, Pete Ricketts, 
           Bill Cassidy, Jon Husted, Mike Rounds, James Lankford, 
           Todd Young, Joni Ernst, John R. Curtis, John Kennedy, 
           Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Boozman.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 William Pulte, of Florida, to be Director of the Federal 
Housing Finance Agency for a term of five years, 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. 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 57, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 120 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

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

                                NAYS--41

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Duckworth
     Sanders
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sheehy). On this vote, the yeas are 57, 
the nays are 41.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Missouri.