[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 137 (Wednesday, November 12, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S5904]
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 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 
     Leigh Martin May, of Georgia, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Mazie K. Hirono, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Angus S. King, Jr., Jon Tester, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Bill Nelson, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Elizabeth Warren, Brian Schatz, Al Franken, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tim Kaine, Charles E. 
           Schumer, Tom Harkin.

  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 Leigh Martin May, of Georgia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, shall be brought 
to a close?
  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 California (Mrs. Boxer), 
the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 272 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Tester
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--30

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Coburn
     Corker
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Boxer
     Stabenow
     Udall (CO)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 
30.
  The motion is agreed to.

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