[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 146 (Wednesday, December 3, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6278]
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 prior to the cloture vote on the Pappert nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. REID. I yield back the time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, 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 
     Gerald J. Pappert, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
         Harry Reid, Richard J. Durbin, Patty Murray, Barbara 
           Boxer, Patrick J. Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Michael F. Bennet, John D. Rockefeller IV, 
           Jon Tester, Jack Reed, Mark R. Warner, Tim Kaine, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Charles E. Schumer, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Christopher Murphy.

  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 Gerald J. Pappert, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 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), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 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 67, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 305 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

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

                                NAYS--28

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Coburn
     Cochran
     Landrieu
     Rockefeller
     Stabenow
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 
28.
  The motion is agreed to.


                            Vote Explanation

 Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I was unable to attend today's 
cloture vote on the nomination of Gerald Pappert to the U.S. District 
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Had I been present, I 
would have supported this cloture motion.

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