advancing the job securities and exchange commission. and possible later a confirmation vote on his nomination. we take you live now to the senate floor. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, security and exchange commission, gary gensler of maryland to be a member. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 34, gary gensler of maryland to be a member of the securities and exchange commission signed by 18 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory

quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debait on the nomination of gary gensler of maryland to be a member of the securities and exchange commission shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote:

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the presiding officer: the yeas are 54, the nays are 44. one senator responded present, and the motion is agreed to. under the previous order, the senate will resume legislative session. session.

a member of the sec for five years. later a confirmation vote on his nomination. senators will also hold confirmation vote for lisa monico to be deputy attorney general. when the senate returns a 4:00 p.m. eastern you can watch live coverage here on c-span2. white house press secretary jen zack held a briefing today taking reporters questions and discussing president biden's phone call with george floyd family. >> we are all awake and a couple items for all of you before i get started and this afternoon the president will take a virtual tour of a electric bus and battery manufacturing plant in greenville, south carolina. he will be joined by the republik and mayor of

greenville, knox white is his name. underscoring the bipartisan support for the clean energy and for structure investment in the american jobs plan. during the visit today the president will make three stops around the manufacturing plant and speak to employees about different aspects of the companies work, including battery installation, body assembly and final inspections of the buses and the american jobs plan includes a total of $45 billion to accelerate the adoption of zero emission transit buses and school buses to achieve the president's goal for all us-made buses to be zero emissions by 2030. this includes 25,000,000,040 emissions transit vehicles and 20 billion for electric school buses. there are currently 475,000 yellow school buses and that sounds like a lot to me but serve 25 million children n-95% of them are powered by diesel and there are nearly 85000 transit vehicles, including buses that still run on diesel or gas