[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 130 (Thursday, July 23, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4448-S4449]
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 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 William Scott Hardy, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
         Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Cindy Hyde-Smith, 
           Michael B. Enzi, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Lamar 
           Alexander, James E. Risch, David Perdue, Bill Cassidy, 
           Pat Roberts, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, 
           Deb Fischer, Mike Crapo, Kevin Cramer.

  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 William Scott Hardy, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas are nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally), and the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Romney).

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  Mr. DURBIN. I announce the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott of Florida). Are there any other 
Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 141 Ex.]

                                YEAS--60

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--32

     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Burr
     Cassidy
     Kaine
     Leahy
     McSally
     Romney
     Sanders
     Sinema
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, and the nays 
are 32.
  The motion is agreed to.

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