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“Cloture Motion (Executive Session)” mentioning John Thune was published in the Senate section on page S2408 on May 10.
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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 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. 69, Andrea Joan Palm, of Wisconsin, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Michael F. Bennet, Jack
Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Patrick J. Leahy, Martin
Heinrich, Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten E.
Gillibrand, Christopher Murphy, Christopher A. Coons,
Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, Chris Van Hollen, Tim
Kaine, Thomas R. Carper, Amy Klobuchar, Margaret Wood
Hassan.
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 Andrea Joan Palm, of Wisconsin, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Pennslyvania (Mr. Toomey).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows:
YEAS--62
BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBluntBookerBrownBurrCantwellCapitoCardinCarperCaseyCollinsCoonsCornynCortez MastoCrapoDuckworthDurbinFeinsteinGillibrandGrahamGrassleyHassanHickenlooperHironoHyde-SmithKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurkowskiMurphyOssoffPadillaPetersPortmanReedRomneyRosenRoundsSandersSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowSullivanTesterVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden
NAYS--35
BarrassoBlackburnBoozmanBraunCassidyCottonCramerCruzDainesErnstFischerHagertyHawleyHoevenInhofeJohnsonKennedyLankfordLeeLummisMarshallMcConnellMoranPaulRischRubioSasseScott (FL)Scott (SC)ShelbyThuneTillisTubervilleWickerYoung
NOT VOTING--3
HeinrichMurrayToomey
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 35.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.
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