[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 27 (Monday, February 10, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S954-S955]
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

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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 Andrew Lynn Brasher, of Alabama, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
         Mitch McConnell, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Thom Tillis, John 
           Thune, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, Steve Daines, Kevin 
           Cramer, Richard Burr, John Cornyn, Shelley Moore 
           Capito, Todd Young, John Boozman, David Perdue, James 
           E. Risch, Lindsey Graham, Roger F. Wicker.

  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 Andrew Lynn Brasher, of Alabama, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, 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 North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the 
Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), 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 46, nays 41, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 35 Ex.]

                                YEAS--46

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--41

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Bennet
     Cramer
     Graham
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Paul
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Scott (FL)
     Toomey
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 
41.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.