[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 25, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1814]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The assistant bill 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. 38, Michael Kratsios, of South 
     Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Science and 
     Technology Policy.
         John Thune, Tim Sheehy, Mike Crapo, Markwayne Mullin, 
           Joni Ernst, David McCormick, Rick Scott of Florida, 
           Bernie Moreno, Mike Rounds, Tommy Tuberville, Katie 
           Boyd Britt, Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Justice, John 
           Barrasso, Steve Daines, Jon Husted.

  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 Michael Kratsios, of South Carolina, to be Director of 
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) 
is necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 73, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Ex.]

                                YEAS--73

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

                                NAYS--25

     Alsobrooks
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kim
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Hoeven
     Padilla
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 73, the nays are 
25.
  The motion is agreed to.

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