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Cloture Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). 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 Brett H. Ludwig, of Wisconsin, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Mitch McConnell, Joni Ernst, John Boozman, James E.
Risch, Mike Rounds, Roger F. Wicker, Mike Crapo, Mitt
Romney, John Barrasso, Shelley Moore Capito, Pat
Roberts, Thom Tillis, Cindy Hyde-Smith, David Perdue,
Lindsey Graham, Kevin Cramer, Tim Scott.
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 Brett H. Ludwig, of Wisconsin, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 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 are necessarily absent: the Senator
from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr.
Hoeven), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from
Georgia (Mr. Perdue), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr.
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin),
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Mrs.
Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 6,
as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 158 Ex.]
YEAS--83
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Blunt
Booker
Boozman
Braun
Brown
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Gillibrand
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Loeffler
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Menendez
Merkley
Moran
Murphy
Paul
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Smith
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Toomey
Udall
Warner
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--6
Hirono
Markey
Schatz
Van Hollen
Warren
Wyden
NOT VOTING--11
Cardin
Graham
Harris
Hoeven
Klobuchar
Murkowski
Murray
Perdue
Sanders
Stabenow
Tilli
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 6.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.