[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 11 (Monday, January 22, 2024)] [Senate] [Page S200] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] 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 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. 358, Christopher Koos, of Illinois, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for a term of five years. Charles E. Schumer, Tim Kaine, Angus S. King, Jr., Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sherrod Brown, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Van Hollen, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy Baldwin, Edward J. Markey, John W. Hickenlooper, Laphonza Butler, Richard J. Durbin, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jeff Merkley, Peter Welch, Gary C. Peters. 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 Christopher Koos, of Illinois, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for a term of five years, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk called the roll. Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent. Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 13 Ex.] YEAS--82 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--7 Braun Hawley Lee Paul Schmitt Scott (FL) Tuberville NOT VOTING--11 Barrasso Cramer Fetterman Graham Hagerty Kelly Risch Scott (SC) Stabenow Sullivan Welch The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 7. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota. ____________________