CLOTURE MOTION

On 2026-08-07, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered a floor speech titled "CLOTURE MOTION" in the Senate.

CLOTURE MOTION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 130 (Friday, August 7, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 130 (Friday, August 7, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S4542] 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 Collins amendment No. 6732 to Calendar No. 320, H.R. 6500, a bill to extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from certain countries in Africa under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, to extend customs user fees, and for other purpose. John Thune, Susan M. Collins, Tim Sheehy, Bill Hagerty, Bernie Moreno, Mike Crapo, John Cornyn, Marsha Blackburn, James Lankford, Jim Banks, Jon Husted, Tom Cotton, Alan Armstrong, Tommy Tuberville, Cindy Hyde- Smith, John Barrasso, David McCormick. 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. 6732, offered by the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), to H.R. 6500, a bill to extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from certain countries in Africa under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, to extend customs user fees, 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 Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 91, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.] YEAS--91 Alsobrooks Armstrong Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kelly Kennedy Kim King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Marshall McCormick Merkley Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla 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 Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--6 Cassidy Kaine Markey Paul Sanders Warren ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Graham NOT VOTING--2 Lummis McConnell The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 91, the nays are 6, and 1 Senator announced ``present.'' 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: HR6500