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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. 705, Max Vekich, of Washington, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
Charles E. Schumer, Christopher Murphy, Edward J. Markey,
Robert P. Casey, Jr., Maria Cantwell, Kirsten E.
Gillibrand, Debbie Stabenow, Benjamin L. Cardin, John
W. Hickenlooper, Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Christopher
A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Richard Blumenthal, Jacky
Rosen, Jack Reed, Thomas R. Carper, Cory A. Booker.
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 Max Vekich, of Washington, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner for a term expiring June 30, 2026, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows:
YEAS--52
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--45
Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--3
Barrasso Blunt Lujan
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 45.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 27
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