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[Pages S5728-S5729]
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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 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 Edward Hulvey Meyers, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the
United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen
years.
Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Mike Rounds, Todd Young, Pat
Roberts, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Thune, Kevin Cramer,
Thom Tillis, Michael B. Enzi, James Lankford, John
Barrasso, Joni Ernst, Lamar Alexander, Rob Portman, Tim
Scott, Steve Daines.
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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 Edward Hulvey Meyers, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the
United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years,
shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the
Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from South
Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Mr.
Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris),
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms.
Sinema), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily
absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 25, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 184 Ex.]
YEAS--65
Alexander
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Jones
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Loeffler
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Murkowski
Murphy
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Tester
Thune
Toomey
Udall
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--25
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Coons
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
Klobuchar
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murray
Reed
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Van Hollen
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--10
Capito
Graham
Harris
Johnson
Moran
Sanders
Sinema
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tilli
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are
25.
The motion is agreed to.
The Senator from Louisiana.