[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 11, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S1500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CLOTURE MOTION
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will
proceed to executive session.
Under the previous order, there is now 2 minutes of debate equally
divided prior to a cloture vote on the Leitman nomination.
Who yields time?
Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to yield back
the time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
All time is yielded back.
The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair
directs the clerk to read 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 debate on the nomination of
Matthew Frederick Leitman, of Michigan, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Carl Levin, Richard J.
Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Debbie Stabenow, Charles E.
Schumer, Patty Murray, Jeanne Shaheen, Amy Klobuchar,
Tom Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie K. Hirono, Joe
Donnelly, Jack Reed, Brian Schatz, 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 Matthew Frederick Leitman, of Michigan, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan 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 Missouri (Mrs.
McCaskill) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 63 Ex.]
YEAS--55
Baldwin
Begich
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
Landrieu
Leahy
Levin
Manchin
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Mikulski
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Nelson
Pryor
Reed
Reid
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Stabenow
Tester
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Walsh
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--43
Alexander
Ayotte
Barrasso
Blunt
Boozman
Burr
Chambliss
Coats
Coburn
Cochran
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
Cruz
Enzi
Fischer
Flake
Graham
Grassley
Hatch
Heller
Hoeven
Inhofe
Isakson
Johanns
Johnson (WI)
Kirk
Lee
McCain
McConnell
Moran
Paul
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rubio
Scott
Sessions
Shelby
Thune
Toomey
Vitter
Wicker
NOT VOTING--2
McCaskill
Rockefeller
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55, the nays are 43.
The motion to invoke cloture is agreed to.
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