[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 163 (Friday, October 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6930-S6931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EN BLOC NOMINATIONS


                           Government Funding

  Mr. SULLIVAN. Madam President, I am very hopeful that my colleagues 
here will move forward on this bipartisan, clean continuing resolution 
so we can get our government open again.
  I do want to just explain to the American people and maybe some of 
our friends in the media a little dirty secret that is going on down 
here on the Senate floor. A lot of my Democratic colleagues are getting 
frustrated, not with us--not with us. We have had three already cross 
over and vote with us. There are a lot more who want to do it.
  They are frustrated because they know we have got to reopen the 
government. They know this is the way to do it, a simple, bipartisan, 
clean continuing resolution. We have been doing this all the time here 
in the Senate. We have done it over 10 times during the Biden 
administration on the Republican side, but there is frustration.
  I will give you my sense of why there is frustration on the Democrat 
side. Usually, in this place, when you run for leader--Democrat leader, 
Republican leader--and you are in leadership, there is kind of an 
unwritten rule that the leader will protect the broader membership and 
broader Members--on votes and different things. That is kind of what 
leadership is about.
  This is the first time I have seen in my entire time here in the U.S. 
Senate where, on the Democrat side, the broader membership seems to be 
protecting just the leader. We all know why. He is worried about his 
left flank; worried about getting primaried.
  So my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are getting 
frustrated, not with us. They know this is the right way to do it.
  They are getting frustrated because they think they are having to 
protect their leader. This isn't the way it works--is supposed to work 
here. The minority leader previously called blocking a clean, 
bipartisan CR to get bigger demands from their side ``political 
idiocy.''
  What we are viewing right now is a lot of political idiocy coming 
from the other side, and my colleagues on the Democratic side are 
really starting to get frustrated, not with us but with their own 
leader.
  I am hoping on this vote, in the next hour or so, for the American 
people, for the institution of the U.S. Senate, we have a couple more 
Democrat Senators who have the courage to break with the political 
idiocy we see right now on their side.
  Vote with us. Reopen the government. They know it is the right thing 
to do. I hope that happens.
  I yield the floor.


                          Vote on S. Res. 412

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all postcloture time 
is expired.
  The question occurs on adoption of the resolution.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) is 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 541 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     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
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--46

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

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Coons
     Cruz
     Moran
  The resolution (S. Res. 412) was agreed to.
  (The resolution is printed in the Record of September 18 (legislative 
day, September 16), 2025, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')


 =========================== NOTE =========================== 

  
  On page S6930, October 3, 2025, third column, the following 
appears: (The resolution is printed in the Record of September 19, 
(legislative day, September 16), 2025, under ``Submitted 
Resolutions.'')
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: (The resolution is 
printed in the Record of September 18, (legislative day, September 
16), 2025, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')


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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.

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