[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 14, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2993-S2994]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
Cloture Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2
minutes of debate prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on
the Tuchi nomination.
Mrs. MURRAY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that all time
be yielded back.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending
cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
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
John Joseph Tuchi, of Arizona, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Arizona.
Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Robert Menendez,
Christopher Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Christopher A.
Coons, Angus S. King, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, Jeff
Merkley, Amy Klobuchar, Dianne Feinstein, Richard J.
Durbin, Tom Udall, Cory A. Booker, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Charles E. Schumer, Edward J. Markey.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 John Joseph Tuchi, of Arizona, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Arizona, 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 Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the
Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily absent.
Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman).
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 145 Ex.]
YEAS--62
Ayotte
Baldwin
Begich
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Boxer
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Chambliss
Collins
Coons
Donnelly
Durbin
Feinstein
Flake
Franken
Gillibrand
Graham
Hagan
Harkin
Hatch
Heinrich
Heitkamp
Hirono
Isakson
Johnson (SD)
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Landrieu
Leahy
Levin
Manchin
Markey
McCain
McCaskill
Menendez
Merkley
Mikulski
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Nelson
Pryor
Reed
Reid
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Stabenow
Tester
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Walsh
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--35
Alexander
Barrasso
Blunt
Burr
Coats
Coburn
Cochran
Corker
Cornyn
Crapo
Cruz
Enzi
Fischer
Grassley
Heller
Hoeven
Inhofe
Johanns
Johnson (WI)
Kirk
Lee
McConnell
Moran
Paul
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rubio
Scott
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Sessions
Shelby
Thune
Toomey
Vitter
Wicker
NOT VOTING--3
Boozman
Brown
Rockefeller
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 62, the nays are 35.
The motion is agreed to.
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