[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S3195]
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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 executive 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. 103, Allison Hooker, of Georgia, to 
     be an Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs).
         John Thune, Markwayne Mullin, John Barrasso, Katie Boyd 
           Britt, Rick Scott of Florida, Jim Banks, Cindy Hyde-
           Smith, Mike Rounds, Joni Ernst, Pete Ricketts, John 
           Boozman, David McCormick, Bernie Moreno, James E. 
           Risch, Bill Cassidy, John R. Curtis, Kevin Cramer.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum 
call under rule XXII has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Allison Hooker, of Georgia, to be an Under Secretary of 
State (Political Affairs), shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Florida 
(Mrs. Moody), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mrs. Moody) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 284 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

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

                                NAYS--37

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kim
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Graham
     Moody
     Ossoff
     Sullivan
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 
37.
  The motion is agreed to.

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