[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 128 (Monday, July 29, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5135]
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 the nomination 
     of Peter D. Welte, of North Dakota, to be United States 
     District Judge for the District of North Dakota.
         Mitch McConnell, Kevin Cramer, Mike Crapo, John Kennedy, 
           Thom Tillis, Richard Shelby, James Inhofe, Rob Portman, 
           Johnny Isakson, John Thune, John Boozman, Marco Rubio, 
           Cory Gardner, Steve Daines, 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 the 
nomination of Peter D. Welte, of North Dakota, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of North Dakota, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), 
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Perdue), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the 
Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Peters
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--21

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Reed
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bennet
     Booker
     Cassidy
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Isakson
     Klobuchar
     Paul
     Perdue
     Sanders
     Sullivan
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 66, the nays are 21.
  The motion is agreed to.

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