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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 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. 914, Todd Blanche, of Florida, to
be Attorney General.
John Thune, Ted Budd, Tom Cotton, Mike Crapo, Katie Boyd
Britt, Tommy Tuberville, Tim Sheehy, Kevin Cramer,
Shelley Moore Capito, John Barrasso, Roger F. Wicker,
John Boozman, Bill Hagerty, Bernie Moreno, John Cornyn,
Marsha Blackburn, James Lankford.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.
nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be 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 bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50, nays 49, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 229 Leg.
YEAS—50
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
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
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS—49
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—1
McConnell
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 49, and the motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.