- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: July 28, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows:
rule XXII of the standing rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 454, H.R. 5334, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes.
John Thune, Darline Graham, John Barrasso, Tim Sheehy,
John Cornyn, John Hoeven, Mike Crapo, James Lankford,
Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, Tim Scott of South
Carolina, Tom Cotton, Roger Marshall, Thom Tillis, John
R. Curtis, Jon A. Husted, Pete Ricketts.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
motion to proceed to Calendar No. 454, H.R. 5334, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Ms. Graham) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
The yeas and the nays resulted—yeas 86, nays 12, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.
YEAS—86
Alsobrooks
Armstrong
Baldwin
Banks
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Booker
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Cantwell
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Gallego
Gillibrand
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kaine
Kelly
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Lee
Lujan
Lummis
Marshall
McCormick
Merkley
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Ricketts
Risch
Rosen
Rounds
Schatz
Schiff
Schmitt
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Sheehy
Slotkin
Smith
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS—12
Blunt Rochester
Hassan
Hirono
Kim
Markey
Ossoff
Padilla
Paul
Sanders
Warren
Welch
Wyden
NOT VOTING—2
Graham
McConnell
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 12.
- the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.