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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of 
     Patricia Ann Millett, of Virginia, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, John D. 
           Rockefeller IV, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jon Tester, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Mark R. Warner, Patty Murray, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Angus S. King, Jr., Barbara Boxer, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Robert Menendez, Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Richard Blumenthal.

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Patricia Ann Millett, of Virginia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, shall be brought to 
a close, upon reconsideration?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CHAMBLISS (when his name was called). Present.
  Mr. HATCH (when his name was called). Present.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 244 Ex.]

                                YEAS--55

     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--2

     Chambliss
     Hatch
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed 
to.

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