- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: May 11, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). 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. 728, Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be
a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 2026.
John Thune, Ted Budd, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, Kevin
Cramer, Bill Cassidy, Katie Boyd Britt, Ashley B.
Moody, John Boozman, Jon Husted, Roger F. Wicker, Tom
Cotton, John Barrasso, James E. Risch, James Lankford,
Steve Daines, Shelley Moore Capito.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.
nomination of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 2026, 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 Utah (Mr. Curtis), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Florida (Mrs. Moody), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts).
Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) would have voted “yea.”
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 49, nays 44, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.
YEAS—49
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moran
Moreno
Paul
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS—44
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gallego
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
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—7
Bennet
Curtis
Hagerty
Hyde-Smith
Moody
Murkowski
Ricketts
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.