[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4725]
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 bill 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 J. Nicholas Ranjan, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
         Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, John Barrasso, Pat Roberts, 
           Mike Crapo, John Cornyn, John Thune, Kevin Cramer, 
           Roger F. Wicker, John Boozman, John Hoeven, Thom 
           Tillis, Johnny Isakson, Tim Scott, Mike Braun, Richard 
           Burr, Lindsey Graham.

  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 J. Nicholas Ranjan, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill 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 83, nays 15, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Ex.]

                                YEAS--83

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     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
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--15

     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Cantwell
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murray
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Gillibrand
     Sanders
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 
15.
  The motion is agreed to.

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