[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3236-S3237]
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 legislature 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 Richard A. Hertling, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the 
     United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen 
     years.
         Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Steve Daines, John 
           Barrasso, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, John Boozman, 
           Roger F. Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Richard Burr, Mike 
           Crapo, David Perdue, John Thune, Tom Cotton, Rick 
           Scott, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn.

  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 Richard A. Hertling, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years, 
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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea'', the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) would have voted ``yea'', and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts 
(Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Braun). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 23, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 144 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--23

     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hirono
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Alexander
     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Inhofe
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Moran
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Toomey
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 
23.
  The motion is agreed to.

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