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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 the nomination of Executive Calendar No. 1183, Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tina
Smith, Michael F. Bennet, Christopher A. Coons,
Margaret Wood Hassan, Tim Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy
Duckworth, Jack Reed, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Angus S.
King, Jr., Patty Murray, Catherine Cortez Masto, Robert
P. Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the nomination of Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 39, as follows:
YEAS--57
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--39
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--4
Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Moran
(Mr. HEINRICH assumed the Chair.)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 39.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 191
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