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Cloture Motion (Executive Calendar)

The Senate held a cloture vote on a nomination or treaty matter from the Executive Calendar; the specific item is not described in the discussion. Three Democratic senators were absent, and the vote stood at 50 yeas to 44 nays. No substantive arguments for or against were recorded in the available statements.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Richard J. Durbin

Democrat
“Three senators cannot be here to vote today.”

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I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 44, as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schmitt). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to.

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