[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 124 (Monday, July 21, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4500]
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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 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. 171, Terrance Cole, of Virginia, to 
     be Administrator of Drug Enforcement.
         John Thune, Markwayne Mullin, John Barrasso, Tim Sheehy, 
           Pete Ricketts, Steve Daines, Bernie Moreno, Mike 
           Rounds, Rick Scott of Florida, Eric Schmitt, Tommy 
           Tuberville, Jim Banks, Thom Tillis, David McCormick, 
           James Lankford, Jon Husted, 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 Terrance Cole, of Virginia, to be Administrator of Drug 
Enforcement, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), 
the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Mullin), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), 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 Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea'', and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), 
the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 44, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 418 Ex.]

                                YEAS--44

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Capito
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Johnson
     Justice
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--43

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

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Budd
     Cassidy
     Coons
     Cruz
     Duckworth
     Graham
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Mullin
     Ossoff
     Risch
     Tillis
     Warnock
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). On this vote, the yeas are 44, 
the nays are 43, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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