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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 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. 123, Orelia Eleta Merchant, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, John
W. Hickenlooper, Margaret Wood Hassan, Gary C. Peters,
Mark Kelly, Jack Reed, Tammy Duckworth, Christopher
Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Catherine Cortez Masto,
Mazie K. Hirono, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen,
Tammy Baldwin, Angus S. King, Jr., Alex Padilla, Robert
Menendez, 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 Orelia Eleta Merchant, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 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 clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows:
YEAS--51
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham 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--48
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer 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--1
Feinstein
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 48.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 74
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