[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 203 (Thursday, December 4, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8500-S8501]
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

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Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The senior assistant executive 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 Executive 
     Calendar No. 3, S. Res. 520, an executive resolution 
     authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of 
     certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.
         John Thune, John Barrasso, Tim Sheehy, Mike Rounds, Pete 
           Ricketts, Roger F. Wicker, Steve Daines, Todd Young, 
           Mike Crapo, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Bernie Moreno, 
           Markwayne Mullin, John R. Curtis, Marsha Blackburn, Tom 
           Cotton, David McCormick, Ted Budd.

  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 S. Res. 
520, an executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in 
Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar, 
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 Indiana (Mr. Banks), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the 
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. McCormick), the Senator from Florida 
(Mrs. Moody), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from California 
(Mr. Schiff), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 43, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 633 Ex.]

                                YEAS--43

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--37

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kim
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murray
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Banks
     Blumenthal
     Cassidy
     Cruz
     Gallego
     Graham
     Kelly
     King
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Sanders
     Schiff
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Slotkin
     Tuberville
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 43, 
the nays are 37. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.
  The motion was rejected.

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