CLOTURE MOTION

On 2026-09-22, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered a floor speech titled "CLOTURE MOTION" in the Senate.

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 150 (Tuesday, September 22, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 150 (Tuesday, September 22, 2026)] [Senate] [Pages S4850-S4851] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] 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 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 Cruz amendment No. 6776 to Calendar No. 449, S. 4668, a bill to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to promote fair competition among intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes. [[Page S4851]] John Thune, Ted Cruz, Eric Schmitt, Chuck Grassley, Tim Sheehy, John Barrasso, Steve Daines, Pete Ricketts, John Cornyn, John R. Curtis, Alan Armstrong, Ted Budd, James Lankford, Bernie Moreno, Cindy Hyde-Smith, James E. Risch, Mike Crapo. 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 amendment No. 6776, offered by the Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Thune] to S. 4668, a bill to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to promote fair competition among intercollegiate athletics, 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 Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Kim), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 70, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Ex.] YEAS--70 Armstrong Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moran Moreno Murkowski Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Smith Sullivan Thune Warner Welch Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--21 Alsobrooks Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Kaine Kelly Markey Merkley Moody Paul Reed Sanders Schiff Schumer Scott (FL) Van Hollen Warnock Warren NOT VOTING--9 Cassidy Coons Gallego Kim Murphy Schatz Tillis Tuberville Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 70, the nays are 21. 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: S4668