[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 69 (Thursday, May 8, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S2838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will state.
  The bill 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 
     James D. Peterson, of Wisconsin, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Mazie K. Hirono, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Al Franken, Jack Reed, Amy Klobuchar, Robert 
           P. Casey, Jr., Sheldon Whitehouse, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Tom Harkin, Barbara Boxer, Richard Blumenthal, Edward 
           J. Markey, Richard J. Durbin, Charles E. Schumer, 
           Elizabeth Warren.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate on the 
nomination of James D. Peterson, of Wisconsin, to the United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, shall be brought 
to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), 
the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--40

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Boozman
     Franken
     Klobuchar
     Pryor
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the ayes are 56, the nays are 40. 
The motion is agreed to.

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