CLOTURE MOTION

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 53 (Sunday, March 22, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 53 (Sunday, March 22, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S1506] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Johnson). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state. 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. 696, Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security. John Thune, Roger Marshall, John Barrasso, Pete Ricketts, Bernie Moreno, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Jim Banks, Marsha Blackburn, Thom Tillis, Chuck Grassley, Bill Hagerty, Rick Scott of Florida, Shelley Moore Capito, Jon A. Husted, Joni Ernst, James Lankford, Ted Budd, Katie Boyd Britt. 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 Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 62 Leg.] YEAS--54 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--37 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Booker Coons Durbin Gallego Kaine Kelly Paul Peters Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________