[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 59 (Thursday, April 10, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2336-S2337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The cloture motion having been 
presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read 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 
     Michelle T. Friedland, of California, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Debbie Stabenow, Jack Reed, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Patty Murray, Elizabeth Warren, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Mazie K.

[[Page S2337]]

           Hirono, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Barbara 
           Boxer, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Charles E. Schumer, John 
           D. Rockefeller IV, Bernard Sanders, Cory A. Booker.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Michelle T. Friedland, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn) would have voted ``nay.''
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 106 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
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--41

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     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--3

     Coburn
     Cruz
     Markey
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote the ayes are 56 and 
the nays are 41.
  The motion to invoke cloture is agreed to.


                            Vote Explanation

 Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent from the 
roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of 
Michelle Friedland to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. 
Had I been present, I would have supported cloture on the nomination of 
Michelle Friedland.

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