[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 214 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8902-S8903]
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 nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 476, Sara Bailey, of Texas, to be 
     Director of National Drug Control Policy.
         John Thune, Pete Ricketts, John Boozman, Lindsey Graham, 
           John Barrasso,

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           Dan Sullivan, Steve Daines, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Deb 
           Fischer, Thom Tillis, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Roger F. 
           Wicker, John Cornyn, Tim Sheehy, Katie Boyd Britt, 
           James E. Risch.

  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 Sara Bailey, of Texas, to be Director of National Drug 
Control Policy, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Curtis).
  Mr. Schumer. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the 
Senator from Massachussetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted----yeas 51, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 659 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Booker
     Curtis
     Durbin
     Kelly
     Smith
     Warren
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
42. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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