[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 69 (Thursday, May 8, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2845-S2846]
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 report.
  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 
     Robin S. Rosenbaum, of Florida, to be

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     United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
         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. All time has been yielded back. 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 Robin S. Rosenbaum, of Florida, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh District, 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 Alaska (Mr. Begich) and 
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 140 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     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
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--37

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Begich
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coburn
     Moran
     Pryor
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 57 and the nays are 
37. The motion is agreed to.
  Under the previous order, with respect to the Talwani, Peterson, and 
Rosenstengel nominations, the motions to reconsider are considered made 
and laid upon the table.
  The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.


                             Change of Vote

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, on rollcall vote 140, I voted aye and it 
was my intention to vote nay. Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I 
be permitted to change my vote, since it will not affect the outcome.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The foregoing tally has been changed to reflect the above order.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. I thank the Chair.
  I would note that the issues revolving around judicial confirmations 
in which we are routinely voting on cloture after the execution of the 
nuclear option, we are having more of these votes than we used to have.

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