[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.

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