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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 John L. Sinatra, Jr., of New York, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of New York.
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 John L. Sinatra, Jr., of New York, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of New York, 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 Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that 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), the Senator from Massachusetts
(Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote or change their vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 16, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 370 Ex.]
YEAS--76
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rubio
Sasse
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--16
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Duckworth
Durbin
Heinrich
Hirono
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Schatz
Smith
Udall
Van Hollen
Wyden
NOT VOTING--8
Booker
Gillibrand
Harris
Klobuchar
Rounds
Sanders
Warren
Whitehouse
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are
16.
The motion is agreed to.
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