[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 134 (Saturday, August 2, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5507-S5508]
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 senior assistant 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. 162, Luke Lindberg, of South 
     Dakota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and 
     Foreign Agricultural Affairs.
         John Thune, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville, John Boozman, 
           Mike Rounds, James Lankford, Lindsey Graham, Ted Budd, 
           Tom Cotton, Bernie Moreno, Markwayne Mullin, Ron 
           Johnson, Roger F. Wicker, Steve Daines, Marsha 
           Blackburn, John R. Curtis, Katie Boyd Britt.

  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 Luke Lindberg, of South Dakota, to be Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, 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 Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) 
and the Sentor from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 19, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 493 Ex.]

                                YEAS--76

     Baldwin
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schmitt
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Warnock
     Young

                                NAYS--19

     Alsobrooks
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kim
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray

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     Padilla
     Sanders
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Gallego
     McConnell
     Scott (SC)
     Welch
     Wicker
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 
19. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.


                             Change of Vote

  Mr. SCHATZ. Mr. President, on rollcall vote No. 493, 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 change the outcome.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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