[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 7, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6116-S6129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired. Under the previous 
order, the hour of 12 noon having arrived, pursuant to rule XXII, the 
Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the 
clerk will report.
  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 Senate, do 
     hereby move to

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     bring to a close debate on Executive Calendar No. 72, the 
     nomination of Janice R. Brown, of California, to be United 
     States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia.
         Bill Frist, Arlen Specter, Trent Lott, Lamar Alexander, 
           Jon Kyl, Jim Talent, Wayne Allard, Richard G. Lugar, 
           John Ensign, C.S. Bond, Norm Coleman, Saxby Chambliss, 
           James Inhofe, Mel Martinez, Jim DeMint, George Allen, 
           Kay Bailey Hutchison, John Cornyn.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of Senate that debate on Executive 
Calendar No. 72, the nomination of Janice R. Brown, of California, to 
be the U.S. circuit judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, shall 
be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords), 
the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl), and the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Byrd
     Carper
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Salazar
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--32

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Cantwell
     Clinton
     Corzine
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Obama
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Jeffords
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 
32. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The Republican whip.

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