[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S2995]
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 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 nomination of 
     Howard C. Nielson, Jr., of Utah, to be United States District 
     Judge for the District of Utah.
         Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Steve Daines, David Perdue, 
           Roger F. Wicker, John Hoeven, Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran, 
           Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Boozman, James E. Risch, Mike 
           Rounds, John Cornyn, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, John 
           Thune, Mike Crapo.

  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 Howard C. Nielson, Jr., of Utah, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Utah, shall be brought to a close?
  The majority leader.


                           Order of Procedure

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that 
following this vote, notwithstanding rule XXII, the Senate recess until 
3:45 p.m. and that at 3:45 p.m., the Senate vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture on the Clark, Nichols, and Bell nominations; finally, 
that if cloture is invoked on the nominations, the confirmation votes 
on the Nielson, Clark, Nichols, and Bell nominations occur at a time to 
be determined by the majority leader, in consultation with the 
Democratic leader, on Wednesday, May 22.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 119 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--47

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Bennet
       
  PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 47.
  The motion is agreed to.

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