[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4724]
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 T. Kent Wetherell II, of Florida, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of Florida.
Mitch McConnell, Kevin Cramer, Mike Crapo, Marco Rubio,
John Kennedy, Thom Tillis, James M. Inhofe, Rob
Portman, Johnny Isakson, John Thune, John Boozman, Cory
Gardner, Steve Daines, Richard C. Shelby, Pat Roberts,
Lindsey Graham, John Hoeven.
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 T. Kent
Wetherell II, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Florida, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
This is a 10-minute vote.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs.
Gillibrand) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily
absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 16, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 192 Ex.]
YEAS--82
Alexander
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Brown
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
McConnell
McSally
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Udall
Warner
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS--16
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Booker
Harris
Hirono
Klobuchar
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Schatz
Schumer
Smith
Stabenow
Van Hollen
Warren
Wyden
NOT VOTING--2
Gillibrand
Sanders
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are
16.
The motion is agreed to.
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