[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 73 (Monday, April 27, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2046-S2047]
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                             Cloture Motion

  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. 670, Robert Cekada, of Florida, to 
     be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
     Explosives.
         John Thune, Tom Cotton, Tim Sheehy, John Barrasso, Jon 
           Husted, Tommy Tuberville, Jim Justice, Cindy Hyde-
           Smith, Roger F. Wicker, Mike Rounds, Steve Daines, 
           Marsha Blackburn, David McCormick, John Cornyn, Thom 
           Tillis, James Lankford, John R. Curtis.

  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 Robert Cekada, of Florida, to be Director, Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Indiana (Mr. Banks), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), 
the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Moreno), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. Durbin. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from 
California (Mr. Padilla), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) 
are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Armstrong
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--37

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kelly
     Kim
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Welch
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Banks
     Cruz
     Fetterman
     Lummis
     Moreno
     Murray
     Padilla
     Tuberville
     Warnock
  (Mr. ROUNDS assumed the Chair.)
  (Mrs. BRITT assumed the Chair.)
  (Mr. RICKETTS assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Husted). On this vote, the yeas are 54, 
the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.

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