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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 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 Steven D. Grimberg, of Georgia, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.
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.
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 Steven D. Grimberg, 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 rules.
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).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Isakson) would have voted ``yea.''
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.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
wishing to vote or to change their vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 16, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 247 Ex.]
YEAS--72
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
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
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--16
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Heinrich
Hirono
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Wyden
NOT VOTING--12
Bennet
Booker
Cassidy
Gillibrand
Harris
Isakson
Kaine
Klobuchar
Markey
Sanders
Warner
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are
16.
The motion is agreed to.
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