[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 34 (Monday, February 26, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S1208]
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                             Cloture Motion

  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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination 
     of Elizabeth L. Branch, of Georgia, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
         Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Roy Blunt, Tim Scott, Todd 
           Young, Richard C. Shelby, John Boozman, Roger F. 
           Wicker, Marco Rubio, Mike Crapo, Steve Daines, Jerry 
           Moran, Tom Cotton, Chuck Grassley, David Perdue, John 
           Cornyn, John Thune.

  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 Elizabeth L. Branch, of Georgia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Heller), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Rounds) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 37 Ex.]

                                YEAS--72

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--22

     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Corker
     Heller
     Jones
     McCain
     Rounds
     Sullivan
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 
22.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from North Dakota.