[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 164 (Monday, November 18, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S8088]
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 and pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
report.
  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 debate on the nomination of 
     Robert Leon Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia 
     Circuit.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom Udall, Mark Begich, 
           Brian Schatz, Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Christopher A. Coons, Tammy Baldwin, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Benjamin L. Cardin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Patty 
           Murray, Barbara A. Mikulski, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Tom 
           Harkin.

  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 Robert Leon Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. HATCH (when his name was called). ``Present.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), and the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner), are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--38

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT'' --1

       
     Hatch
       

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Begich
     Blunt
     Graham
     Isakson
     Landrieu
     Rubio
     Vitter
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 
38. One Senator responded ``Present.'' Three-fifths of the Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion 
is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on the Wilkins nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.

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