    [Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
    [Senate]
    [Pages S124-S125]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 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,
         do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination
         of Michael Lawrence Brown, of Georgia, to be United States
         District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.
             Mitch McConnell, Deb Fischer, John Barrasso, John Thune,
               Roger F. Wicker, James M. Inhofe, Johnny Isakson, Mike
               Crapo, Tom Cotton, Chuck Grassley, Thom Tillis, Mike
               Rounds, Michael B. Enzi, James Lankford, Lindsey
               Graham, Pat Roberts, Todd Young.

      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 Michael Lawrence Brown, 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 assistant bill clerk called the roll.
      Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
    from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
      Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker)
    is necessarily absent.
      The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Are there any other Senators in
    the Chamber desiring to vote?
      The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 97, nays 1, as follows:

                           [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Ex.]

                                    YEAS--97

         Alexander
         Baldwin
         Barrasso
         Bennet
         Blumenthal
         Blunt
         Boozman
         Brown
         Burr
         Cantwell
         Capito
         Cardin
         Carper
         Casey
         Cassidy
         Cochran
         Collins
         Coons
         Corker
         Cornyn
         Cortez Masto
         Cotton
         Crapo
         Cruz
         Daines
         Donnelly
         Duckworth
         Durbin
         Enzi
         Ernst
         Feinstein
         Fischer
         Flake
         Gardner
         Gillibrand
         Graham
         Grassley
         Harris
         Hassan
         Hatch
         Heinrich
         Heitkamp
         Heller
         Hoeven
         Inhofe
         Isakson
         Johnson
         Jones
         Kaine
         Kennedy
         King
         Klobuchar
         Lankford
         Leahy
         Lee
         Manchin
         Markey
         McCaskill
         McConnell
         Menendez
         Merkley
         Moran
         Murkowski
         Murphy
         Murray
         Nelson
         Paul
         Perdue
         Peters
         Portman
         Reed
         Risch
         Roberts
         Rounds
         Rubio
         Sanders
         Sasse
         Schatz
         Schumer
         Scott
         Shaheen
         Shelby
         Smith
         Stabenow
         Sullivan
         Tester
         Thune
         Tillis
         Toomey
         Udall
         Van Hollen
         Warner
         Warren
         Whitehouse
         Wicker
         Wyden
         Young

                                    NAYS--1

         Hirono

                                 NOT VOTING--2

         Booker
         McCain

      The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 97, the nays are 1.
      The motion is agreed to.

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