[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 153 (Tuesday, October 28, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S13420]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I therefore send a cloture motion to 
the desk to the pending nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The 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 Executive 
     Calendar No. 400, the nomination of Charles W. Pickering, 
     Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
     the Fifth Circuit.
         Bill Frist, Orrin Hatch, Trent Lott, Conrad Burns, Lamar 
           Alexander, Arlen Specter, Mitch McConnell, Mike DeWine, 
           Chuck Hagel, Rick Santorum, Craig Thomas, Thad Cochran, 
           John Ensign, Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Dole, Michael B. 
           Enzi, Gordon Smith.

  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent the live quorum as required 
under rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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