the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of derek kan of california to be under secretary of transportation for policy shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll.

the clerk: nomination department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dismissed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. i'm going to spend the bulk of my time this afternoon focusing on the tax plan, but first i must address president trump's trip to asia. without exaggeration, the president's trip to asia has been one of the most embarrassing foreign trips a president has taken in my memory. it shows when it comes to foreign policy, president trump is not ready for prime time. after a campaign in which he routinely criticized china -- rightly, in my opinion -- for rapacious trading practices that have stolen american jobs and depressed american wages, president trump went to china and gave them

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thune: madam president, i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. the commerce committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. it's now november 9. over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. this non-controversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. it's truly unfortunate, madam president, when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nominee who is well known to many of us here in the senate do to his previous work as a senate staffer. to illustrate how noncontroversial and well qualified this nominee is, less than two years ago, mr. kan was confirmed by voice vote in the senate to be a director on the amtrak board of directors. the only thing that has changed in the two years since mr. kan was previously confirmed is that some on the democrat side have decided to hold this nomination hostage as well as the nomination of ronald batory to be administrator of th

the clerk: nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture notion desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. 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 derek kan of california to be under secretary of transportation for policy. signed by 1 senators as -- by 17 senators as follows. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum calls with respect to the cloture motions be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that notwithstanding the provisions of rule 22, the pending cloture motions ripen at 5:30 on monday, november 6. i further ask that at 11:00 a.m. on tuesday, november 7, the senate proceed to the consideration of executive calendar 247, as under the previous or