[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 71 (Tuesday, April 29, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2621]
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. 78, Thomas Barrack, of Colorado, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Turkey.
         John Thune, Jim Justice, Ted Cruz, Bernie Moreno, Jon A. 
           Husted, Steve Daines, John R. Curtis, Tommy Tuberville, 
           Tim Sheehy, Pete Ricketts, Joni Ernst, James E. Risch, 
           Mike Rounds, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Eric Schmitt, 
           Katie Boyd Britt, John Barrasso

  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 Thomas Barrack, of Colorado, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Republic of Turkey, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 
and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily 
absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

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

                                NAYS--36

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Sanders
     Whitehouse
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). On this vote, the yeas are 62, the 
nays are 36.
  The motion is agreed to.

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