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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 bill 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. 191, Rajesh D. Nayak, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Charles E. Schumer, Jacky Rosen, Thomas R. Carper, Tina
Smith, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy Baldwin, Richard
Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth, Gary C. Peters, Elizabeth
Warren, Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Christopher
A. Coons, Angus S. King, Jr., Kirsten E. Gillibrand,
Ben Ray Lujan, Brian Schatz.
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 Rajesh D. Nayak, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 46, as follows:
YEAS--53
BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBookerBrownCantwellCardinCarperCaseyCollinsCoonsCortez MastoDuckworthDurbinFeinsteinGillibrandHassanHeinrichHickenlooperHironoKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurkowskiMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaPetersReedRomneyRosenSandersSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowTesterVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden
NAYS--46
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NOT VOTING--1
Rounds
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 46.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 192
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