[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 62 (Monday, April 7, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2454]
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 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. 56, Elbridge Colby, of the District 
     of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
         John Thune, John Barrasso, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John R. 
           Curtis, Bernie Moreno, Pete Ricketts, Eric Schmitt, Jon 
           A. Husted, Marsha Blackburn, Roger Marshall, Jim 
           Justice, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty, Joni Ernst, 
           James E. Risch, Tim Sheehy, David McCormick.

  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 Elbridge Colby, of the District of Columbia, to be Under 
Secretary of Defense for Policy, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Curtis) and 
the Senator from Montana (Mr. Sheehy).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Gallego), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--39

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

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Booker
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     Ossoff
     Sanders
     Sheehy
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). On this vote, the yeas are 53, 
the nays are 39.
  The motion is agreed to.

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