[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 136 (Thursday, August 16, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5682-S5683]
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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 senior assistant 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 Julius Ness Richardson, of South Carolina, to be United 
     States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
         Mitch McConnell, Cindy Hyde-Smith, David Perdue, Mike 
           Crapo, Mike Rounds, John Boozman, Ron Johnson, John 
           Barrasso, Steve Daines, John Cornyn, Johnny Isakson, 
           John Thune, James E. Risch, Richard Burr, Lindsey 
           Graham, Thom Tillis, Roy Blunt.

  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 Julius Ness Richardson, of South Carolina, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Flake), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Lee), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) 
and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 10, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 184 Ex.]

                                YEAS--80

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--10

     Blumenthal
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     Markey
     Merkley
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Alexander
     Durbin
     Flake
     Inhofe
     Lee
     McCain
     Murray
     Rubio
     Tillis
     Toome
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 
10.
  The motion is agreed to.

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