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[Pages S3235-S3236]
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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 senior assistant 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 Ryan T. Holte, of Ohio, to be a Judge of the United States
Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years.
Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Joni Ernst, Steve Daines,
Roger F. Wicker, John Thune, Roy Blunt, Thom Tillis,
John Kennedy, John Boozman, Pat Roberts, Mike Rounds,
John Cornyn, Richard Burr, John Barrasso, Lindsey
Graham, Rick Scott.
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 Ryan T. Holte, of Ohio, to be a Judge of the United
States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years, shall be
brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr.
Alexander) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr.
Moran) would have voted ``yea.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker),
the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 33, as follows:
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[Rollcall Vote No. 142 Ex.]
YEAS--60
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Brown
Burr
Capito
Carper
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Johnson
Jones
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Murkowski
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NAYS--33
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Cantwell
Cardin
Casey
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Feinstein
Harris
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
Klobuchar
Leahy
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Smith
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--7
Alexander
Booker
Gillibrand
Markey
Moran
Sanders
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are
33.
The motion is agreed to.
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