[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2148-S2149]
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 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. 53, 
Mehmet Oz, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services.
         John Thune, Tim Sheehy, John R. Curtis, Joni Ernst, Mike 
           Crapo, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville, Roger Marshall, 
           John Boozman, Ron Johnson, Rick Scott of Florida, Steve 
           Daines, Tom Cotton, Todd Young, Mike Rounds, Ted Budd, 
           Pete Ricketts.

  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 Mehmet Oz, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 164 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)

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     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--45

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Boozman
     Hoeven
     Murray
     Sanders
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 
45.
  The motion is agreed to.

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