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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 Rossie David Alston, Jr., of Virginia, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Steve Daines, John
Barrasso, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, John Boozman,
Roger F. Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Richard Burr, Mike
Crapo, David Perdue, John Thune, Tom Cotton, Rick
Scott, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn.
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 Rossie David Alston, Jr., of Virginia, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 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 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 74, nays 19, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 143 Ex.]
YEAS--74
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Durbin
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
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--19
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Brown
Cantwell
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Harris
Heinrich
Hirono
Klobuchar
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Peters
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Udall
Wyden
NOT VOTING--7
Alexander
Booker
Gillibrand
Markey
Moran
Sanders
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). On this vote, the yeas are 74,
the nays are 19.
The motion is agreed to.
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