[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 63 (Tuesday, April 8, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2473]
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. 66, Kevin Cabrera, of Florida, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Panama.
         John Thune, John Barrasso, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John R. 
           Curtis, Rick Scott of Florida, Bernie Moreno, Pete 
           Ricketts, Eric Schmitt, Jon A. Husted, Roger Marshall, 
           Jim Justice, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty, Joni 
           Ernst, James E. Risch, Marsha Blackburn, Tim Sheehy.

  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 Kevin Cabrera, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of 
Panama, 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 Pennsylvania (Mr. McCormick), the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. 
Duckworth), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), 
are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Duckworth
     Hassan
     McCormick
     Murphy
     Paul
     Tillis
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
42, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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