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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. 975, Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2018.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Ben Ray Lujan,
Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Tina Smith, Angus S. King, Jr.,
Patrick J. Leahy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A.
Coons, Alex Padilla, Chris Van Hollen, Margaret Wood
Hassan, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Catherine
Cortez Masto, Tim Kaine.
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 Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2018, 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 Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 27, as follows:
YEAS--66
Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS--27
Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville
NOT VOTING--7
Blumenthal Leahy Lujan Moran Risch Sasse Schumer
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). The yeas are 66, the nays are 27.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 114
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