CLOTURE MOTION

On 2026-07-14, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered a floor speech titled "CLOTURE MOTION" in the Senate.

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)] [Senate] [Pages S3918-S3919] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hyde-Smith). Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state. The senior assistant executive 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. 436, S. 4784, a original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. John Thune, Roger F. Wicker, Tim Sheehy, Mike Rounds, Jon A. Husted, Steve Daines, Bill Hagerty, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito, Bernie Moreno, Cindy Hyde-Smith, James C. Justice, Jim Banks, John Boozman, Cynthia M. Lummis, John Cornyn, John R. Curtis. 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 motion to proceed to S. 4784, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Justice) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Ex.] YEAS--50 Armstrong 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 Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--46 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Thune Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Fetterman Justice McConnell Padilla The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. [[Page S3919]] The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Motion to Reconsider Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. ____________________

Referenced legislation: S4784