[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 142 (Wednesday, November 19, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6139]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  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 
     Victor Allen Bolden, of Connecticut, to be United States 
     District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Robert Menendez, Patty 
           Murray, Debbie Stabenow, Benjamin L. Cardin, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Christopher Murphy, 
           Brian Schatz, Richard J. Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Tom Harkin, Angus S. King, Jr., Tom Udall, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Sheldon Whitehouse.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
under rule XXII has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Victor Allen Bolden, of Connecticut, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Connecticut, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. 
Hagan), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), and the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 287 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Levin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--44

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Chambliss
     Hagan
     Landrieu
     Sanders
     Vitter
  

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
44.
  The motion is agreed to.

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