[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 21, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S3698]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the clerk will report 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of 
     Srikanth Srinivasan, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit 
     Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Bill Nelson, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Kaine, Jack Reed, Barbara A. 
           Mikulski, Mark R. Warner, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod 
           Brown, Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Tom 
           Harkin, Bernard Sanders, Al Franken, Robert Menendez.

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under 
rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, we are moving forward. This will be the 
sixth or seventh year we have tried to fill vacancies on the DC 
Circuit. There are four vacancies there. I hope the President sends us 
some more names. I understand that will be the case maybe before the 
end of this week.
  It is outrageous we have been stopped procedurally from doing the 
work of this country in filling these nominations in this very 
important court. We are going to have a cloture vote on this on 
Thursday, as we should do, and hopefully finish by the end of the week. 
If we get cloture, we will finish by the end of the week if we have to 
stay over another day or so.

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