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Motion to Proceed on Motion to Reconsider Cloture Vote
Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I move to proceed to the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not agreed to on Executive Calendar No. 844, the nomination of Lisa DeNell Cook.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed to the motion to reconsider.
The motion was agreed to.
Motion to Reconsider
Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on Calendar No. 844.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to reconsider.
The motion was agreed to.
Cloture Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
The senior assistant 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. 844, Lisa DeNell Cook, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2010.
Charles E. Schumer, Mazie K. Hirono, Martin Heinrich, Tim
Kaine, Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Ben Ray Lujan,
Christopher A. Coons, Alex Padilla, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Sherrod Brown, Debbie Stabenow, Christopher Murphy,
Patrick J. Leahy, John W. Hickenlooper, Tammy Baldwin,
Angus S. King, Jr.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate on the nomination of Lisa DeNell Cook, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2010, shall be brought to a close, upon reconsideration?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows:
YEAS--50
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly
King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--49
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--1
Lummis
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 49.
The motion, upon reconsideration, is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 78
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