[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 74 (Thursday, May 15, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3057-S3058]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 NOMINATION OF DOUGLAS L. RAYES TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR 
                   THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate prior to a vote on the Rayes nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, we yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  The question occurs on the nomination.
  Mr. PORTMAN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to 
be a sufficient second. There is a sufficient second.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Douglas L. Rayes, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Arizona?
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Isakson).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.]

                                YEAS--77

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)

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     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--19

     Barrasso
     Burr
     Coburn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     Moran
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Boozman
     Isakson
     Manchin
     Rockefeller
  The nomination was confirmed.

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