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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 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 Joshua M. Kindred, of Alaska, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Alaska.
Mitch McConnell, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Thom Tillis, John
Thune, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, Steve Daines, Kevin
Cramer, Richard Burr, John Cornyn, Shelley Moore
Capito, Todd Young, John Boozman, David Perdue, James
E. Risch, Lindsey Graham, Roger F. Wicker.
Mr. DAINES. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the votes
in this series be 10 minutes in length.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Without objection, it is so ordered.
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 Joshua M. Kindred, of Alaska, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Alaska, 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 South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from North Carolina
(Mr. Tillis).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet),
the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), and the Senator
from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) 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 52, nays 41, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 37 Ex.]
YEAS--52
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Grassley
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Loeffler
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Paul
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--41
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Harris
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Jones
Kaine
King
Leahy
Manchin
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Van Hollen
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--7
Bennet
Graham
Klobuchar
Sanders
Tillis
Udall
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are
41.
The motion is agreed to.
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