[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 71 (Wednesday, May 1, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2551-S2552]
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 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 Rodolfo Armando Ruiz II, of Florida, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Southern District of Florida.

[[Page S2552]]

         Mitch McConnell, Deb Fischer, Mike Rounds, James E. 
           Risch, John Thune, Rick Scott, James M. Inhofe, John 
           Cornyn, John Hoeven, Pat Roberts, Tim Scott, Steve 
           Daines, Richard Burr, John Boozman, Roy Blunt, Shelley 
           Moore Capito, John Barrasso.

  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 Rodolfo Armando Ruiz II, of Florida, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  This is a 10-minute vote.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 10, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Ex.]

                                YEAS--89

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--10

     Cardin
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Peters
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Van Hollen
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Young
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 89, the nays are 10.
  The motion is agreed to.

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