[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 65 (Thursday, April 10, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2579]
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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 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. 74, the following named officer for 
     appointment as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 
     appointment in the United States Air Force to the grade 
     indicated while assigned to a position of importance and 
     responsibility under title 10, U.S.C., sections 152 and 601: 
     to be General, Lt. Gen. John D. Caine (Retired).
         John Thune, John R. Curtis, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn, Ted 
           Budd, Kevin Cramer, John Hoeven, John Barrasso, Joni 
           Ernst, Markwayne Mullin, Tom Cotton, Pete Ricketts, Dan 
           Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Todd Young, Roger F. 
           Wicker, John Boozman.

  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 the following named officer for appointment as Chairman 
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointment in the United States Air 
Force to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of importance 
and responsibility under title 10, U.S.C., sections 152 and 601: to be 
General, Lt. Gen. John D. Caine (Retired), 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 Tennesssee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Boozman), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), 
the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) are 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.]

                                YEAS--60

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moreno
     Murkowski
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schiff
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--25

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Duckworth
     Gallego
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Coons
     Daines
     Hawley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Peters
     Sanders
     Shaheen
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 60, the nays are 25. The motion 
is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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