CLOTURE MOTION

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 54 (Monday, March 23, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 54 (Monday, March 23, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S1542] 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 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. 697, Colin McDonald, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General. John Thune, Chuck Grassley, Roger Marshall, John Barrasso, Bill Hagerty, Pete Ricketts, Bernie Moreno, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, Rick Scott of Florida, Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Banks, Jon Husted, Joni Ernst, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Budd. 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 Colin McDonald, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--45 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Gallego Mullin Tuberville Van Hollen (Mr. SCHMITT assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 45, and the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________