[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4443]
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. 91, Arielle Roth, of the District 
     of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
     Communications and Information.
         John Thune, Bernie Moreno, Lindsey Graham, Tommy 
           Tuberville, Steve Daines, Marsha Blackburn, Joni Ernst, 
           James Lankford, John Barrasso, Cindy Hyde-Smith, 
           Shelley Moore Capito, John R. Curtis, Tim Scott of 
           South Carolina, Roger Marshall, Mike Rounds, John 
           Boozman, Pete Ricketts.

  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 Arielle Roth, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, 
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 North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. 
Ernst), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), 
the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Gallego), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator 
from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), the Senator from California (Mr. Schiff), the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), and the 
Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 416 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     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)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--34

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kelly
     Kim
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Welch
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Coons
     Cramer
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Gallego
     Heinrich
     Kaine
     King
     Moran
     Rosen
     Schiff
     Shaheen
     Tillis
     Warner
     Warnock
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 
34, and the motion was agreed to.
  The motion is agreed to.

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