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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextThe PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Johnson). 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:
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. 696, Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma,
to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
John Thune, Roger Marshall, John Barrasso, Pete Ricketts,
Bernie Moreno, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Jim Banks,
Marsha Blackburn, Thom Tillis, Chuck Grassley, Bill
Hagerty, Rick Scott of Florida, Shelley Moore Capito,
Jon A. Husted, Joni Ernst, James Lankford, Ted Budd,
Katie Boyd Britt.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security, 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 Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 54, nays 37, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 62 Leg.
YEAS—54
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Heinrich
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Mullin
Murkowski
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS—37
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Cantwell
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—9
Booker
Coons
Durbin
Gallego
Kaine
Kelly
Paul
Peters
Shaheen
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.