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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 executive 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. 915, Charlotte N. Sweeney, of Colorado, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado.
Charles E. Schumer, Tina Smith, Christopher Murphy, Tim
Kaine, Patrick J. Leahy, Jack Reed, Benjamin L. Cardin,
Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, Jacky Rosen, Catherine
Cortez Masto, Margaret Wood Hassan, Martin Heinrich,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A.
Coons, Tammy Baldwin.
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 Charlotte N. Sweeney, of Colorado, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina
(Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina
(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.''
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 42, as follows:
YEAS--48
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--42
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--10
Boozman Cornyn Cruz Merkley Murkowski Rubio Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 42.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 90
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