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PHOTO IDENTIFICATION—Motion to Proceed
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows:
Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 547, S. 5271, a bill to
amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voters to
provide photo identification.
Cloture Motion
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 executive clerk read as follows:
Cloture Motion
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 motion to
proceed to Calendar No. 547, S. 5271, a bill to amend the
Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voters to provide
photo identification.
John Thune, Jon A. Husted, Steve Daines, John R. Curtis,
Bill Cassidy, Katie Boyd Britt, Bernie Moreno, James E.
Risch, Pete Ricketts, John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Mike
Crapo, Mike Rounds, James C. Justice, David McCormick,
Tom Cotton, Ted Budd.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.
Mr. HUSTED. Madam President, using a photo ID to vote is common sense. It is an issue Americans broadly support. So tonight, this early morning, I am offering a clean, simple straightforward bill to require a photo ID to vote in America.
military or veterans ID, or Tribal ID. No additional restrictions. No tricks. No games. No prohibitions on absentee voting.
Thirty-six States require some form of photo ID. Photo ID laws have been tested in elections across this country, and they work. So tonight, I am asking my colleagues to answer one simple question: Should you have to prove who you are when you vote?
Senators agree. I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this bill to establish nationwide photo ID standards and give Americans better-run and honest and fair elections.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.
Mr. PADILLA. Madam President, colleagues, here we are after months and months and months of continuing to debate this bill, which still hasn't passed. We should be debating how to bring costs down for working families across the country.
of this war in Iran. Instead, here is this measure again, which is not a simple voter ID bill. As written, it is stricter than most voter ID bills in States that already have a voter ID law in place.
their ID when they vote by mail, as well as tens of millions of Americans who vote by mail. This bill would do away with secret ballots as we know it. So colleagues, I urge you to vote no on this measure.
Vote on Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.
motion to proceed to Calendar No. 547, S. 5271, a bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voters to provide photo identification, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) is necessary absent.
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 52, nays 46, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 231 Leg.
YEAS—52
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
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS—46
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
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
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—2
McConnell
Welch
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 46.
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.