[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 98 (Monday, June 23, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page 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 be 2
minutes of debate equally divided prior to a cloture vote on the
Crawford nomination.
Mr. HATCH. I yield back the time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 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
Geoffrey W. Crawford, of Vermont, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Vermont.
Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Tom Udall, Robert P. Casey,
Jr., Tim Kaine, Jack Reed, Cory A. Booker, Barbara
Boxer, Bill Nelson, Jeff Merkley, Christopher A. Coons,
Angus S. King, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, 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
motion to proceed to the nomination of Geoffrey W. Crawford, of
Vermont, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Vermont, shall be brought to a close?
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On page S3893, June 23, 2014, in the first column, the Record
reads: The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the
nomination of . . .
The Online Record has been corrected to read: The question is,
Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to proceed
to the nomination of . . .
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The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative 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 52, nays 32, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 205 Ex.]
YEAS--52
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
McCaskill
Menendez
Merkley
Mikulski
Murphy
Murray
Nelson
Reed
Reid
Rockefeller
Sanders
Schumer
Shaheen
Stabenow
Tester
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Walsh
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--32
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
Rubio
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 yeas are 52, the nays are 32.
The motion is agreed to.
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