[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 57 (Monday, March 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1920]
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                             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. 40, Matthew Whitaker, of Iowa, to 
     be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of 
     the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and 
     status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
         John Thune, Katie Boyd Britt, Bernie Moreno, Mike Rounds, 
           Tom Cotton, Markwayne Mullin, John Barrasso, Cindy 
           Hyde-Smith, Rick Scott of Florida, John Hoeven, Roger 
           Marshall, Thom Tillis, Jim Justice, Tim Sheehy, James 
           Lankford, Joni Ernst, John R. Curtis.

  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 Matthew Whitaker, of Iowa, to be United States Permanent 
Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator 
from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito) would have vote ``yea'' and the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. 
Hyde-Smith) would have voted ``yea''.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), 
the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 156 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Barrasso
     Capito
     Coons
     Hickenlooper
     Hyde-Smith
     Lummis
     Murkowski
     Peters
     Slotkin
  (Mr. RICKETTS assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Marshall). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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