[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 10, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S3299]
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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 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. 112, Stephen Vaden, of Tennessee, 
     to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
         John Thune, Eric Schmitt, Bernie Moreno, John Boozman, 
           Jim Justice, Dan Sullivan, Pete Ricketts, Mike Rounds, 
           Chuck Grassley, Jon A. Husted, Ted Cruz, Rick Scott of 
           Florida, Josh Hawley, John Hoeven, Mike Crapo, Ashley 
           B. Moody, Marsha Blackburn.

  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 Stephen Vaden, of Tennessee, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Agriculture, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Budd), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Budd) would have voted ``yea'', the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea'', and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea''.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) and 
the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 300 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Britt
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     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
     Padilla
     Peters
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Boozman
     Budd
     Hoeven
     Marshall
     Ossoff
     Reed
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). On this vote, the yeas are 48, 
the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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