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MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, in accordance with rule XXI, I now move
that the Senate go into closed session.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a second?
Mr. DURBIN. I second the motion.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion having been made and
seconded, the Senate will go into closed session.
The Chair, pursuant to rule XXI, now directs the Sergeant at Arms to
clear all Galleries, close all doors of the Senate Chamber, and exclude
from the Chamber and its immediate corridors all employees and
officials of the Senate who, under the rule, are not eligible to attend
the closed session and who are not sworn to secrecy.
The question is not debatable.
Pursuant to rule XXIX, I authorize the Secretary's desk staff and her
Deputies and the Assistant Secretaries for the majority and minority to
remain in the Chamber during the closed session.
The doors will be closed.
People who are not authorized to be here will please leave the
Chamber.
(At 12:55 p.m., the doors of the Chamber were closed.)
(At 1:15 p.m., by a vote of 53 to 44, the doors of the Chamber were
opened, and the open session of the Senate was resumed.)
Vote on Motion to Proceed
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the motion to
proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 890, the
nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The yeas and the nays were previously ordered.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris),
the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms.
Sinema) are necessarily absent.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the
Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote?
The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 217 Leg.]
YEAS--51
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
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Loeffler
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NAYS--46
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Leahy
Manchin
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--3
Harris
Jones
Sinema
The motion was agreed to
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