[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 88 (Monday, June 9, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3493-S3494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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 
     Leo T. Sorokin, of Massachusetts, to be United States 
     District Judge for the District of Massachusetts.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher Murphy, Al Franken, Jon 
           Tester, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff Merkley, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Benjamin L. Cardin, Bill 
           Nelson, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren, Tom Harkin, 
           Mazie K. Hirono.

  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 Leo T. Sorokin, of Massachusetts, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Massachusetts 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 Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. 
McCaskill), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), and the Senator 
from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 177 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     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
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--33

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake

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     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Paul
     Portman
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Begich
     Cochran
     Graham
     Isakson
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Landrieu
     McCaskill
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Risch
     Roberts
     Schatz
     Vitter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 52, the nays are 33. 
The motion is agreed to.