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[Pages S979-S980]
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 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 Matthew Thomas Schelp, of Missouri, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.
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.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). 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 Matthew Thomas Schelp, of Missouri, to be United States
District
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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 bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from South Carolina (Mr. Graham).
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?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 38 Ex.]
YEAS--72
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Carper
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Loeffler
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--22
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Casey
Coons
Gillibrand
Harris
Heinrich
Hirono
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Van Hollen
Wyden
NOT VOTING--6
Bennet
Graham
Klobuchar
Sanders
Udall
Warren
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 72 and the nays are
22.
The motion is agreed to.
=========================== NOTE ===========================
On page S980, February 11, 2020, first column, the following
appears: The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77 and
the nays are 22. The motion is agreed to.
The online Record has been corrected to read: The PRESIDING
OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72 and the nays are 22. The
motion is agreed to.
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