[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 92 (Tuesday, June 5, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2981-S2982]
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 assistant 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 Annemarie Carney Axon, of Alabama, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.
         Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, John Kennedy, 
           Richard Burr, Mike Lee, David Perdue, Steve Daines, 
           James Lankford, Pat Roberts, Johnny Isakson, Jeff 
           Flake, Lindsey Graham, Patrick J. Toomey, Marco Rubio, 
           Tom Cotton, James E. Risch.

  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 Annemarie Carney Axon, of Alabama, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator

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from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), 
the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 11, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.]

                                YEAS--84

     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
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--11

     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hirono
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Peters
     Sanders
     Stabenow
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Coons
     Duckworth
     Heinrich
     Isakson
     McCain
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 
11.
  The motion is agreed to.

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