[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 155 (Wednesday, September 9, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5487-S5488]
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 Thomas T. Cullen, of Virginia, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Western District of Virginia.
         Mitch McConnell, Richard C. Shelby, Lamar Alexander, Pat 
           Roberts, Mike Crapo, Marsha Blackburn, David

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           Perdue, Kevin Cramer, John Cornyn, Shelley Moore 
           Capito, John Thune, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cory Gardner, Roy 
           Blunt, Martha McSally, John Barrasso, John Boozman.

  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 Thomas T. Cullen, of Virginia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), 
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 18, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Ex.]

                                YEAS--77

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

                               NAYS-- 18

     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Baldwin
     Harris
     Klobuchar
     Sanders
     Stabenow
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 
18.
  The motion is agreed to.

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