[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 98 (Monday, June 23, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3892-S3893]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided prior to the cloture vote on the 
Bloom nomination.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to yield back all 
time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The assistant 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 
     Beth Bloom, of Florida, to be United States District Judge 
     for the Southern District of Florida.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom Udall, Robert P. Casey, 
           Jr., Jack Reed, Tim Kaine, Barbara Boxer, Bill Nelson, 
           Jeff Merkley, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Richard Blumenthal, Cory A. Booker, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Christopher Murphy, Patty Murray, Charles E. Schumer.

  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 Beth Bloom of Florida to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of Florida shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Pryor), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), 
the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), 
the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Johanns), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) 
would have voted ``nay'' and 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 53, nays 31, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan

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     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--31

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Corker
     Crapo
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Begich
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Heller
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Markey
     Murkowski
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Schatz
     Scott
     Toomey
     Vitter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the ayes are 53, the nays are 31. 
The motion is agreed to.

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