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                             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. 401, Graham Scott Steele, of 
     California, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
         Charles E. Schumer, Jacky Rosen, Thomas R. Carper, Alex 
           Padilla, Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, Elizabeth 
           Warren, Jeff Merkley, Christopher A. Coons, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Gary C. Peters, Martin Heinrich, 
           Brian Schatz, Chris Van Hollen.

  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 Graham Scott Steele, of California, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury, 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.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley) would have voted ``Nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 466 Leg.]

                                YEAS--55

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla

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     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Cantwell
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Rubio
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 55, 
the nays are 38.
  The motion was agreed to.

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