[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 96 (Thursday, June 5, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S3247]
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 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. 111, Brett Shumate, of Virginia, to 
     be an Assistant Attorney General.
         John Thune, Tommy Tuberville, Rick Scott of Florida, Mike 
           Lee, Jon Husted, Josh Hawley, Ashley Moody, Marsha 
           Blackburn, David McCormick, Markwayne Mullin, James 
           Lankford, Bernie Moreno, Steve Daines, Katie Boyd 
           Britt, Lindsey Graham, John R. Curtis, Mike Rounds.

  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 Brett Shumate, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General, 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 Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Sheehy).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Hagerty) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the 
Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Ossoff), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), and the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 296 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     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)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--40

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Slotkin
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Blackburn
     Hagerty
     King
     Lujan
     Moran
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Sanders
     Sheehy
     Smith
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
40.
  The motion is agreed to.

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