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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextThe PRESIDING OFFICER. 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. 697, Colin McDonald, of California,
to be an Assistant Attorney General.
John Thune, Chuck Grassley, Roger Marshall, John
Barrasso, Bill Hagerty, Pete Ricketts, Bernie Moreno,
John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, Rick Scott of
Florida, Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Banks, Jon Husted,
Joni Ernst, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Budd.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
nomination of Colin McDonald, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 51, nays 45, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 64 Ex.
YEAS—51
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Wicker
Young
NAYS—45
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—4
Gallego
Mullin
Tuberville
Van Hollen
(Mr. SCHMITT assumed the Chair.)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 45, and the motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.