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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 Peter D. Welte, of North Dakota, to be United States
District Judge for the District of North Dakota.
Mitch McConnell, Kevin Cramer, Mike Crapo, John Kennedy,
Thom Tillis, Richard Shelby, James Inhofe, Rob Portman,
Johnny Isakson, John Thune, John Boozman, Marco Rubio,
Cory Gardner, Steve Daines, Pat Roberts, Lindsey
Graham, John Hoeven.
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 Peter D. Welte, of North Dakota, to be United States
District Judge for the District of North Dakota, shall be brought to a
close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
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 New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 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 66, nays 21, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.]
YEAS--66
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Carper
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Peters
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--21
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Casey
Heinrich
Hirono
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Reed
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--13
Bennet
Booker
Cassidy
Duckworth
Gillibrand
Harris
Isakson
Klobuchar
Paul
Perdue
Sanders
Sullivan
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 66, the nays are 21.
The motion is agreed to.
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