[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 71 (Tuesday, April 29, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2631]
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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 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. 79, Tilman Fertitta, of Texas, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Italian Republic, and to serve 
     concurrently and without additional compensation as 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of San Marino.
         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 Tilman Fertitta, of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Italian 
Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to the Republic of San Marino, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) and the Senator from Rhode Island 
(Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 13, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Ex.]

                                YEAS--84

     Baldwin
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schiff
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Warnock
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--13

     Alsobrooks
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Hirono
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Sanders
     Welch
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 
13.
  The motion is agreed to.

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