[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 3, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6819]
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 read.
  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 Douglas Russell Cole, of Ohio, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
         Mitch McConnell, John Hoeven, Steve Daines, James E. 
           Risch, Roger F. Wicker, Pat Roberts, John Thune, Mike 
           Rounds, Roy Blunt, Mike Crapo, John Boozman, John 
           Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, David Perdue, 
           Chuck Grassley, Rick Scott.

  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 Douglas Russell Cole, of Ohio, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), 
the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
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 or change their vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 29.

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 372 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Jones
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--29

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Booker
     Harris
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Klobuchar
     Murkowski
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 62, the nays are 29.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.


                             Change of Vote

  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, on rollcall vote 372, I voted no. It was 
my intention to vote aye. Therefore, I ask unanimous consent that I be 
permitted to change my vote since it will not affect the outcome.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The foregoing tally has been changed to reflect the above order.)

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