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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 motion to proceed to Calendar No. 273, H.R. 3076, a bill to provide stability to and enhance the services of the United States Postal Service, and for other purposes.
Charles E. Schumer, Alex Padilla, Christopher Murphy,
Edward J. Markey, Gary C. Peters, Brian Schatz, Jack
Reed, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper, Sheldon
Whitehouse, Tim Kaine, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher
A. Coons, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Patrick
J. Leahy, Debbie Stabenow.
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 motion to proceed to H.R. 3076, a bill to provide stability to and enhance the services of the United States Postal Service, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 20, as follows:
YEAS--74
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS--20
Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cornyn Crapo Cruz Hagerty Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Toomey Tuberville
NOT VOTING--6
Feinstein Inhofe Kennedy Lujan Paul Warnock
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 20.
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 36
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