[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 117 (Tuesday, July 8, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4253-S4254]
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. 197, Bryan Bedford, of Indiana, to 
     be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for 
     the term of five years.
         John Thune, Eric Schmitt, John R. Curtis, Tim Scott of 
           South Carolina, Bill Cassidy, Jon A. Husted, Steve 
           Daines, Marsha Blackburn, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Ron 
           Johnson, John Barrasso, Tim Sheehy, Mike Rounds, Bernie 
           Moreno, Pete Ricketts, Jim Justice, Bill Hagerty.

  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 Bryan Bedford, of Indiana, to be Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration for the term of five years, 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 (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Hagerty) would have voted ``yea,'' the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Heinrich), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from 
Nevada (Ms. Rosen), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 374 Ex.]

                                YEAS--47

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy

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     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--42

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Lee
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Rosen
     Schmitt
     Scott (SC)
     Warnock
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 47, the nays are 42. The motion 
is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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