[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 69 (Thursday, May 8, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2844-S2845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




NOMINATION OF JAMES D. PETERSON TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR 
              THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, what is the next matter before the Senate?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The next vote is to occur on the Peterson 
nomination.
  Mr. REID. I yield back the time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  All time is yielded back.

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  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of James D. Peterson, of Wisconsin, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Wisconsin?
  Mr. GRAHAM. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to 
be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu), and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 24, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Ex.]

                                YEAS--70

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (WI)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--24

     Barrasso
     Cochran
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Lee
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Begich
     Boozman
     Coburn
     Coons
     Landrieu
     Pryor
  The nomination was confirmed.

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