- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: July 27, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
The senior assistant bill 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. 833, Walter Clayton, of New York,
to be Director of National Intelligence.
John Thune, Tom Cotton, Jon Husted, Alan Armstrong, Jim
Banks, Bernie Moreno, Chuck Grassley, John Barrasso,
Marsha Blackburn, Joni Ernst, John R. Curtis, Roger F.
Wicker, Pete Ricketts, Katie Boyd Britt, Bill Hagerty,
Tim Scott of South Carolina, Mike Crapo.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.
nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 51, nays 43, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 210 Leg.
YEAS—51
Armstrong
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
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS—43
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—6
Gillibrand
Kelly
McConnell
Peters
Ricketts
Welch
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.