President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, passed a key procedural vote in the Senate on Thursday, clearing the path for his final confirmation vote.

Freshman Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno as Presiding Officer is seen as Senators deliberate on the floor conferring with a reading clerk before announcing the roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Howard Lutnick to serve as Secretary of Commerce in the second Trump Administration.