The publication is reproduced in full below:
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. 985, John Z. Lee, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Ben Ray Lujan,
Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Tina Smith, Angus S. King, Jr.,
Patrick J. Leahy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A.
Coons, Alex Padilla, Chris Van Hollen, Margaret Wood
Hassan, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Catherine
Cortez Masto, Tim Kaine, Cory A. Booker.
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 John Z. Lee, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, 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 Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
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 Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--42
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--10
Burr Cramer Duckworth Klobuchar Murkowski Ossoff Risch Rosen Sanders Sullivan
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 42.
The motion is agreed to.
The majority leader.
____________________
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 142
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
Senators' salaries are historically higher than the median US income.
Alerts Sign-up