[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S3196]
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. 109, Dale Marks, of Florida, to be 
     an Assistant Secretary of Defense.
         John Thune, Markwayne Mullin, John Barrasso, Katie Boyd 
           Britt, Jim Banks, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mike Rounds, Joni 
           Ernst, Pete Ricketts, John Boozman, David McCormick, 
           Bernie Moreno, Rick Scott of Florida, 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 Dale Marks, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Defense, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Sullivan).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), 
and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 286 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

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

                                NAYS--28

     Alsobrooks
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Daines
     Gallego
     Graham
     Lee
     Ossoff
     Sullivan
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). On this vote, the yeas are 66, the 
nays are 28.
  The motion is agreed to.

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