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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 William Scott Hardy, of Pennsylvania, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Cindy Hyde-Smith,
Michael B. Enzi, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Lamar
Alexander, James E. Risch, David Perdue, Bill Cassidy,
Pat Roberts, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis,
Deb Fischer, Mike Crapo, Kevin Cramer.
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 William Scott Hardy, of Pennsylvania, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, shall be
brought to a close?
The yeas are 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 North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr.
Cassidy), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally), and the Senator from
Utah (Mr. Romney).
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Mr. DURBIN. I announce the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Vermont (Mr.
Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily
absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott of Florida). Are there any other
Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 32, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 141 Ex.]
YEAS--60
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Capito
Carper
Casey
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Lee
Loeffler
Manchin
McConnell
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--32
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gillibrand
Harris
Heinrich
Hirono
Klobuchar
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Paul
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--8
Burr
Cassidy
Kaine
Leahy
McSally
Romney
Sanders
Sinema
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, and the nays
are 32.
The motion is agreed to.
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