[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 49 (Friday, March 14, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1773]
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. 36, John Phelan, of Florida, to be 
     Secretary of the Navy.
         John Thune, Tim Sheehy, Cynthia M. Lummis, Rick Scott of 
           Florida, Kevin Cramer, Ted Budd, Cindy Hyde-Smith, 
           Lindsey Graham, Markwayne Mullin, Marsha Blackburn, 
           Thom Tillis, Tommy Tuberville, John R. Curtis, Chuck 
           Grassley, James Lankford, John Barrasso, Todd Young.

  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 John Phelan, of Florida, to be Secretary of the Navy, 
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 Senator is necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy).
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 134 Ex.]

                                YEAS--64

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--33

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kim
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Cassidy
     Durbin
     Sanders
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 64, the nays are 33.
  The motion is agreed to.

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