[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 26, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1746-S1747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the

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Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  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 
     M. Edward G. Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Debbie Stabenow, Robert 
           Menendez, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Jeff Merkley, Carl Levin, Bernard Sanders, 
           Joe Donnelly, Maria Cantwell, Barbara A. Mikulski, Tom 
           Harkin, Tim Kaine, Jeanne Shaheen, Jon Tester.

  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 Edward G. Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 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 Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 23, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 83 Ex.]

                                YEAS--75

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--23

     Blunt
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Corker
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Landrieu
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 75, the nays are 23.
  The motion is agreed to.

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