[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 93 (Monday, May 18, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2477-S2478]
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 Scott H. Rash, of Arizona, to be United States District 
     Judge for the District of Arizona.
         Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, John 
           Barrasso, Deb Fischer, John Cornyn, Roger F. Wicker, 
           Roy Blunt, John Thune, Rob Portman, Shelley Moore 
           Capito, Steve Daines, Lindsey Graham, Pat Roberts, 
           Cindy Hyde-Smith, Richard Burr, Mike Crapo.

  By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that the nomination of 
Scott H. Rash, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Arizona, shall be brought to a close?

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  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 Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea,'' the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio) would have voted ``yea,'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the 
Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the 
Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 21, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

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

                                NAYS--21

     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Casey
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Reed
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Alexander
     Brown
     Burr
     Cardin
     Leahy
     Markey
     Moran
     Peters
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 
21.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Iowa is recognized.