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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 bill 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. 375, Erika L. McEntarfer, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, 
     Department of Labor, for a term of four years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Bernard Sanders, Christopher Murphy, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Tammy Baldwin, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Tina Smith, Alex Padilla, Gary C. Peters, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Mazie K. Hirono, John W. Hickenlooper, 
           Patty Murray, Debbie Stabenow, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Jeanne Shaheen, Peter Welch.

  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 Erika L. McEntarfer, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, for a term of 
four years, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), 
and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 88, nays 8, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Ex.]

                                YEAS--88

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--8

     Crapo
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Cantwell
     Cramer
     Moran
     Mullin
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 88, the 
nays are 8.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from North Carolina.