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CLOTURE MOTION
The VICE PRESIDENT. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
The bill 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. 13, Margaret R. Guzman, of Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jack Reed, Robert
P. Casey, Jr., Mark Kelly, Patty Murray, Tim Kaine,
Jeff Merkley, Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren,
Tammy Baldwin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, John
W. Hickenlooper, Christopher Murphy, Brian Schatz,
Debbie Stabenow, Alex Padilla.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). 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 Margaret R. Guzman, of Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, 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), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 48, as follows:
YEAS--48
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 Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--48
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--4
Crapo Feinstein Fetterman Merkley
(Mr. WARNOCK assumed the Chair.)
The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 48.
The Senate being evenly divided, the Vice President votes in the affirmative.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 38
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