[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 146 (Wednesday, December 3, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6277]
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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 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 
     David J. Hale, of Kentucky, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Western District of Kentucky.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Mazie K. Hirono, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Patty Murray, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Jeanne Shaheen, Claire McCaskill, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Mark Begich, Jeff Merkley, Richard J. Durbin, Charles 
           E. Schumer.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
the Hale nomination.
  Ms. CANTWELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent all time be 
yielded back on both sides.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  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 David J. Hale, of Kentucky, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, 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 Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) 
and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 31, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 303 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--31

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     Moran
     Risch
     Roberts
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Coburn
     Cochran
     Landrieu
     Rockefeller
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 
31.
  The motion is agreed to.

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