[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 200 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5739-S5740]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The legislative 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 nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 144, Elizabeth H. Richard, of 
     Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, 
     Class of Career Minister, to be Coordinator for 
     Counterterrorism, with the rank and status of Ambassador at 
     Large.
         Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Christopher Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Alex Padilla, Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Debbie 
           Stabenow, Raphael G. Warnock, Tammy Duckworth.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Elizabeth H. Richard, of Virginia, a

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Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, 
to be Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador at Large, 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.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 329 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--37

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the 
nays are 37, and the motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.

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