[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 92 (Tuesday, June 5, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S2978]
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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,
do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination
of Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., of Texas, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.
Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Roger F. Wicker, John
Cornyn, Thom Tillis, Orrin G. Hatch, Roy Blunt, Mike
Rounds, John Hoeven, Richard Burr, John Thune, Joni
Ernst, Pat Roberts, John Barrasso, Johnny Isakson,
Steve Daines, Chuck Grassley.
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 Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., of Texas, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, 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. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons),
the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Heinrich), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 94, nays 1, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 114 Ex.]
YEAS--94
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt
Booker
Boozman
Brown
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Corker
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Donnelly
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Flake
Gardner
Gillibrand
Graham
Grassley
Harris
Hassan
Hatch
Heitkamp
Heller
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
Markey
McCaskill
McConnell
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--5
Coons
Duckworth
Heinrich
McCain
Menendez
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 94, the nays are 1.
The motion is agreed to.
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