[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 23 (Monday, February 13, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Page S554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the cloture motion 
having been presented under rule XXII, the clerk will report the 
motion.
  The 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination 
     of Adalberto Jose Jordan, of Florida, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit:
         Harry Reid, Joe Manchin III, Sherrod Brown, Tom Udall, 
           Patty Murray, Mark Begich, Herb Kohl, Bill Nelson, 
           Frank R. Lautenberg, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Chris Coons, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, Joseph 
           I. Lieberman, Charles E. Schumer

  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 Adalberto Jose Jordan, of Florida, to be U.S. Circuit 
Judge for the Eleventh 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 Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) 
and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), 
the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Texas (Mrs. 
Hutchison).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) 
would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
DeMint) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 5, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 18 Ex.]

                                YEAS--89

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (WI)
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lugar
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--5

     Blunt
     Lee
     Paul
     Toomey
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--6

     DeMint
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Kirk
     Landrieu
     Lieberman
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 89, the nays are 5. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Vermont.

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