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[Pages S6818-S6819]
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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 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 Sarah E. Pitlyk, of Missouri, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Mitch McConnell, John Boozman, Richard Burr, Shelley
Moore Capito, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, John Barrasso,
Roy Blunt, John Thune, Steve Daines, Thom Tillis, Kevin
Cramer, Chuck Grassley, Tom Cotton, Rick Scott, Cindy
Hyde-Smith, David Perdue.
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 Sarah E. Pitlyk, of Missouri, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, 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 Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr.
Rounds).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alaska (Ms.
Murkowski) would have voted ``nay.''
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Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker),
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. (Ms. McSally). Are there any other Senators in
the Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 43, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 371 Ex.]
YEAS--50
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cassidy
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NAYS--43
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Jones
Kaine
King
Leahy
Manchin
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--7
Booker
Harris
Klobuchar
Murkowski
Rounds
Sanders
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are
43.
The motion is agreed to.
Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the
remaining votes in this series be 10 minutes each in length.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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