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[Pages S5178-S5179]
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 bill 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 Jeffrey Vincent Brown, of Texas, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.
Mitch McConnell, John Boozman, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo,
Pat Roberts, Mike Rounds, Thom Tillis, Roger F. Wicker,
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kevin Cramer, John Hoeven, Rob
Portman, Dan Sullivan, Chuck Grassley, Richard Burr,
John Thune, Roy Blunt.
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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 Jeffrey Vincent Brown, of Texas, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern 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 bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Isakson).
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 Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms.
Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), and
the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
(Mr. Scott of Florida assumed the Chair.)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). 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. 243 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
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NAYS--37
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Jones
King
Leahy
Manchin
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Udall
Van Hollen
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--12
Bennet
Booker
Cassidy
Gillibrand
Harris
Isakson
Kaine
Klobuchar
Markey
Sanders
Warner
Warre
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are
37.
The motion is agreed to.
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