[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 70 (Monday, April 28, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2595-S2596]
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 assistant 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. 80, David Perdue, of Georgia, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the People's Republic of China.
         John Thune, Jim Justice, Ted Cruz, Bernie Moreno, Jon A. 
           Husted, Steve Daines, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, 
           John R. Curtis, Tommy Tuberville, Tim Sheehy, Pete 
           Ricketts, Joni Ernst, James E. Risch, Mike Rounds, Tim 
           Scott of South Carolina, Eric Schmitt.

  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 David Perdue, of Georgia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the People's 
Republic of China, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

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  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Graham), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea''.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch), and the Senator from Rhode Island 
(Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 27, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.]

                                YEAS--64

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--27

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kelly
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Cramer
     Fetterman
     Graham
     Kaine
     Murray
     Padilla
     Tillis
     Welch
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). On this vote, the yeas are 64, 
the nays are 27.
  The motion is agreed to.

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