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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 Executive Calendar No. 27, Jessica G. L. Clarke, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard
Blumenthal, Christopher A. Coons, Benjamin L. Cardin,
Tina Smith, Christopher Murphy, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy
Baldwin, Margaret Wood Hassan, John W. Hickenlooper,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Catherine Cortez Masto, Brian
Schatz, Gary C. Peters, Alex Padilla, Michael F.
Bennet.
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 Jessica G. L. Clarke, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), and the Senator from Kentucky
(Mr. McConnell).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows:
YEAS--49
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan
Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--45
Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--6
Barrasso Cruz Feinstein Fetterman Hoeven McConnell
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 45.
The motion is agreed to.
The majority leader.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 49
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