[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 163 (Monday, September 21, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5728-S5729]
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 Edward Hulvey Meyers, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the 
     United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen 
     years.
         Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Mike Rounds, Todd Young, Pat 
           Roberts, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Thune, Kevin Cramer, 
           Thom Tillis, Michael B. Enzi, James Lankford, John 
           Barrasso, Joni Ernst, Lamar Alexander, Rob Portman, Tim 
           Scott, Steve Daines.


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  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 Edward Hulvey Meyers, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen 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 were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. 
Sinema), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 184 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

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

                                NAYS--25

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Reed
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Capito
     Graham
     Harris
     Johnson
     Moran
     Sanders
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tilli
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 
25.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Louisiana.