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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. 1043, Arianna J. Freeman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.
Charles E. Schumer, Christopher Murphy, Tammy Baldwin,
Tina Smith, Christopher A. Coons, Elizabeth Warren,
Jeanne Shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Alex Padilla, Richard J.
Durbin, Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters, Edward J. Markey,
Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Mazie K.
Hirono.
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 Arianna J. Freeman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``nay''.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 44, as follows:
YEAS--45
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--44
Blackburn Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker
NOT VOTING--11
Barrasso Blunt Braun Brown Hassan Menendez Peters Risch Stabenow Toomey Young
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 44.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 146
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