CLOTURE MOTION

On 2026-07-28, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered a floor speech titled "CLOTURE MOTION" in the Senate.

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 123 (Tuesday, July 28, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 28, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S4292] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CLOTURE MOTION The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 454, H.R. 5334, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes. John Thune, Darline Graham, John Barrasso, Tim Sheehy, John Cornyn, John Hoeven, Mike Crapo, James Lankford, Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Tom Cotton, Roger Marshall, Thom Tillis, John R. Curtis, Jon A. Husted, Pete Ricketts. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Calendar No. 454, H.R. 5334, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, 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 legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Ms. Graham) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The yeas and the nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.] YEAS--86 Alsobrooks Armstrong Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McCormick Merkley Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schatz Schiff Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Smith Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--12 Blunt Rochester Hassan Hirono Kim Markey Ossoff Padilla Paul Sanders Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Graham McConnell The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HR5334