[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 125 (Tuesday, July 22, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4520-S4521]
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 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 motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 121, H.R. 3944, a bill making 
     appropriations for military construction, the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
         John Thune, David McCormick, Marsha Blackburn, James E. 
           Risch, Jon A. Husted, Jim Banks, Tom Cotton, Steve 
           Daines, Ashley B. Moody, Cynthia M. Lummis, Mike Crapo, 
           Roger F. Wicker, Roger Marshall, James Lankford, Todd 
           Young, Mike Rounds, Dan Sullivan.

  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 
motion to proceed to Calendar No. 121, H.R. 3944, a bill making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2026, and for other purposes, 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 Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Mullin).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 91, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 423 Ex.]

                                YEAS--91

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McCormick
     Merkley
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schmitt
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--7

     Lee
     Markey
     Murphy
     Padilla
     Sanders
     Schiff
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--2

     McConnell
     Mullin
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 91, the nays are 7.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.


                             Change of Vote

  Mr. WELCH. Mr. President, on rollcall vote No. 423, I voted no. It 
was my intention to vote yea. Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I 
be permitted to change my vote since it will not affect the outcome.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The foregoing tally has been changed to reflect the above order.)

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