June 11, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 97 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages S3313-S3314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             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 Jean-Paul Boulee, of Georgia, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.
         Mitch McConnell, John Barrasso, Mike Rounds, Pat Roberts, 
           Richard Burr, John Cornyn, Johnny Isakson, Ben Sasse, 
           Thom Tillis, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Michael B. Enzi, John 
           Kennedy, Shelley Moore Capito, John Boozman, Steve 
           Daines, Mike Crapo, Lindsey Graham.
  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 Jean-Paul Boulee, of Georgia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), and 
the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea''.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) 
is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.]

                                YEAS--84

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith

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     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--12

     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Van Hollen
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Alexander
     Booker
     Ernst
     Fischer
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 
12.
  The motion is agreed to.

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