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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 Executive Calendar No. 22, Anthony Devos Johnstone, of Montana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tim
Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Raphael G.
Warnock, Tammy Duckworth, Jack Reed, Sheldon
Whitehouse, John W. Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez
Masto, Tammy Baldwin, Brian Schatz, Christopher Murphy,
Tina Smith, Debbie Stabenow.
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 Anthony Devos Johnstone, of Montana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent.
Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows:
YEAS--50
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman 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 Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--45
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--5
Braun Feinstein Lee Moran Warnock
(Mr. WELCH assumed the Chair.)
(Mr. KELLY assumed the Chair.)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The yeas are 50, the nays are 45, and the motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 71
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