[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S1106]
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 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 Robert Anthony Molloy, of the Virgin Islands, to be Judge 
     for the District Court of the Virgin Islands for a term of 
     ten years.
         Mitch McConnell, Mike Crapo, Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds, 
           Lamar Alexander, John Hoeven, Roger F. Wicker, Rob 
           Portman, 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 Robert Anthony Molloy, of the Virgin Islands, to be Judge 
for the District Court of the Virgin Islands for a term of ten years, 
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 Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally), the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the 
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), 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 88, nays 1, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 53 Ex.]

                                YEAS--88

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

                                NAYS--1

       
     Hirono
       

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Burr
     Cramer
     Feinstein
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     McSally
     Murkowski
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Toomey
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 88, the nays are 1.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Texas.