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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. 986, Salvador Mendoza, Jr., of Washington, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth 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.
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 Salvador Mendoza, Jr., of Washington, 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 New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowsi), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 43, as follows:
YEAS--48
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--43
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--9
Burr Crapo Menendez Murkowski Ossoff Peters Portman Rosen Scott (SC)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 43.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, today, we take a solemn and somber pause. A few minutes ago, we learned the sad news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning Monarch in British history. I join with Leader McConnell, with my Senate colleagues, and with all Americans to offer deepest sympathies and prayers to the royal family and to the people of the United Kingdom.
I never had the honor of meeting Her Majesty the Queen myself, but I admired much about her until the very end. It is hard to fathom that today we have to say goodbye because, after all, most Americans--to say nothing of the British people--have never lived in a world without Her Majesty the Queen.
It is a marvel to think that in the same year of Her Majesty's coronation, Harry Truman was in the White House. The world was still coming out of the shadow of the Second World War, entering a bold, uncertain, unchartered future.
In her time, she came to know 15 different Prime Ministers, 14 U.S. Presidents, traveled to well over 100 countries, and made over 200 official state visits. She was the first British Monarch ever to address a joint session of Congress. And thanks to her, the special relationship between the United States and the UK gained even more special significance.
Her reign saw the dawn of the atomic age, the age of the internet, the fall of the Soviet Union, an unprecedented global pandemic. She didn't just witness the great turns of history; she helped shape them over the seven decades--seven decades--of her reign. And every step of the way, she was precisely the kind of leader the moment demanded.
In times of hardship, she was both strong and comforting. In times of joy, she was gracious and dignified. She was a rock, the living embodiment of the virtues that lie at the core of the nation she so proudly led. I dare say we will never see a leader quite like her for as long as we live.
So, today, we join the people of the UK and the royal family in mourning the loss of Her Majesty the Queen. May she rest in peace.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 144
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