[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7141-S7142]
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 Karen Spencer Marston, of Pennsylvania, to be United 
     States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
     Pennsylvania.
         Mitch McConnell, Mike Crapo, Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds, 
           Lamar Alexander, John Hoeven, Roger F. Wicker, Pat 
           Roberts, John Thune, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Boozman, 
           Tom Cotton, Chuck Grassley, Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, 
           Todd Young, 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 Karen Spencer Marston, of Pennsylvania, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator

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from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), 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 (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 404 Ex.]

                                YEAS--85

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--7

     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     Markey
     Merkley
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Booker
     Duckworth
     Harris
     Isakson
     Klobuchar
     Paul
     Sanders
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 7.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from South Dakota.
  Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that following 
the first vote in the series, the votes be 10 minutes each.
  Mr. WICKER. Reserving the right to object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi.
  Mr. WICKER. Madam President, I would simply hope that--and I will not 
object--we will mean what we say when we limit the time on these votes.
  We have eight more votes, and if Members will cooperate, we can get 
finished with that.
  I withdraw my objection.
  Mr. THUNE. Well stated.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.

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