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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 James Wesley Hendrix, of Texas, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Texas.
Mitch McConnell, Kevin Cramer, Mike Crapo, Marco Rubio,
John Kennedy, Thom Tillis, James M. Inhofe, Rob
Portman, Johnny Isakson, John Thune, John Boozman, Cory
Gardner, Steve Daines, Richard C. Shelby, Pat Roberts,
Lindsey Graham, John Hoeven.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that if cloture
is invoked on the Hendrix nomination, all postcloture time expire at
2:45 p.m. today and the Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination;
further, that if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made
and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of
the Senate's action.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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 James Wesley Hendrix, of Texas, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Texas 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 Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson),
and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet),
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 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 result was announced--yeas 85, nays 5, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 238 Ex.]
YEAS--85
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Menendez
Merkley
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Schatz
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--5
Blumenthal
Brown
Hirono
Markey
Wyden
NOT VOTING--10
Bennet
Booker
Cassidy
Gillibrand
Harris
Isakson
Klobuchar
Paul
Sanders
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 5.
The motion is agreed to.
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