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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. 41, P. Casey Pitts, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tim
Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Raphael G.
Warnock, Tammy Duckworth, Jack Reed, Sheldon
Whitehouse, John W. Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez
Masto, Tammy Baldwin, Brian Schatz, Christopher Murphy,
Tina Smith, Debbie Stabenow.
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 P. Casey Pitts, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, 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 roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 46, as follows:
YEAS--53
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein 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--46
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy 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) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--1
Scott (SC)
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 46.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 104
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