[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 79 (Monday, May 11, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2194]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). 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. 728, Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be 
     a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
     System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 2026.
         John Thune, Ted Budd, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, Kevin 
           Cramer, Bill Cassidy, Katie Boyd Britt, Ashley B. 
           Moody, John Boozman, Jon Husted, Roger F. Wicker, Tom 
           Cotton, John Barrasso, James E. Risch, James Lankford, 
           Steve Daines, Shelley Moore Capito.

  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 Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years 
from February 1, 2026, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Curtis), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Hagerty), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator 
from Florida (Mrs. Moody), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and 
the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Hagerty) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--44

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     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--7

     Bennet
     Curtis
     Hagerty
     Hyde-Smith
     Moody
     Murkowski
     Ricketts
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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