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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 Michael T. Liburdi, of Arizona, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Arizona.
James Inhofe, John Hoeven, Mike Rounds, Joni Ernst, Kevin
Cramer, Ben Sasse, Pat Roberts, John Boozman, Mike
Crapo, Steve Daines, John Cornyn, James E. Risch, Roger
F. Wicker, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis, Roy Blunt, Mitch
McConnell.
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 Michael T. Liburdi, of Arizona, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Arizona, 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
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from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson),
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Perdue), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet),
the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the
Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr.
Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 37, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 234 Ex.]
YEAS--51
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sinema
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NAYS--37
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Feinstein
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
King
Leahy
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--12
Bennet
Cassidy
Duckworth
Gillibrand
Harris
Isakson
Klobuchar
Paul
Perdue
Sanders
Sullivan
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are
37.
The motion is agreed to.
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