[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 154 (Tuesday, September 8, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S5436]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). 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 Brett H. Ludwig, of Wisconsin, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
         Mitch McConnell, Joni Ernst, John Boozman, James E. 
           Risch, Mike Rounds, Roger F. Wicker, Mike Crapo, Mitt 
           Romney, John Barrasso, Shelley Moore Capito, Pat 
           Roberts, Thom Tillis, Cindy Hyde-Smith, David Perdue, 
           Lindsey Graham, Kevin Cramer, Tim Scott.

  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 Brett H. Ludwig, of Wisconsin, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 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 South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Perdue), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Mrs. 
Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 6, 
as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 158 Ex.]

                                YEAS--83

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

                                NAYS--6

     Hirono
     Markey
     Schatz
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Cardin
     Graham
     Harris
     Hoeven
     Klobuchar
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Perdue
     Sanders
     Stabenow
     Tilli
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 6.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.