CLOTURE MOTION

On 2026-05-11, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered a floor speech titled "CLOTURE MOTION" in the Senate.

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 79 (Monday, May 11, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 79 (Monday, May 11, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S2194] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). 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. 728, Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 2026. John Thune, Ted Budd, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, Kevin Cramer, Bill Cassidy, Katie Boyd Britt, Ashley B. Moody, John Boozman, Jon Husted, Roger F. Wicker, Tom Cotton, John Barrasso, James E. Risch, James Lankford, Steve Daines, Shelley Moore Capito. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the nomination of Kevin Warsh, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 2026, 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 Utah (Mr. Curtis), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Florida (Mrs. Moody), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) would have voted ``yea.'' Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.] YEAS--49 Armstrong Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Husted Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moran Moreno Paul Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--44 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gallego 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 Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Curtis Hagerty Hyde-Smith Moody Murkowski Ricketts The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________