[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 26, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S1746]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 debate on the nomination of 
     M. Douglas Harpool, of Missouri, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Western District of Missouri.
         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.

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I yield back all time on the next three 
nominations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Douglas Harpool, of Missouri, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, 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 Virginia (Mr. Warner) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there ary other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 43, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

     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
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     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--1

       
     Warner
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 56 and the nays are 
43.
  The motion is agreed to.

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