[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 73 (Thursday, May 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2732]
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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. 60, Frank Bisignano, of New Jersey,
to be Commissioner of Social Security Administration for the
term expiring January 19, 2031.
John Thune, Katie Boyd Britt, Dan Sullivan, Roger F.
Wicker, Mike Crapo, Tommy Tuberville, Jim Justice, John
Boozman, Roger Marshall, John Kennedy, Cindy Hyde-
Smith, Rick Scott of Florida, Ted Budd, James Lankford,
Mike Rounds, John Barrasso, Bernie Moreno.
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 Frank Bisignano, of New Jersey, to be Commissioner of
Social Security Administration for the term expiring January 19, 2031,
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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the
Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr.
Graham), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders)
and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 230 Ex.]
YEAS--50
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moreno
Mullin
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS--45
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--5
Britt
Graham
Moran
Sanders
Slotkin
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.