[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 147 (Thursday, December 4, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




NOMINATION OF JOSEPH F. LEESON, JR., TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 
          FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate prior to the vote on the Leeson nomination.
  Mr. CASEY. I ask unanimous consent all time be yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania?
  Mr. CASEY. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator 
from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 16, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 312 Ex.]

                                YEAS--76

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Levin
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker

                                NAYS--16

     Begich
     Booker
     Boxer
     Cantwell
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Johnson (SD)
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Stabenow
     Udall (NM)
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cruz
     Landrieu
     Markey
     Moran
     Rockefeller
     Udall (CO)
  The nomination was confirmed.

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