[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 182 (Friday, October 23, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S6408]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, in accordance with rule XXI, I now move 
that the Senate go into closed session.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a second?
  Mr. DURBIN. I second the motion.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion having been made and 
seconded, the Senate will go into closed session.
  The Chair, pursuant to rule XXI, now directs the Sergeant at Arms to 
clear all Galleries, close all doors of the Senate Chamber, and exclude 
from the Chamber and its immediate corridors all employees and 
officials of the Senate who, under the rule, are not eligible to attend 
the closed session and who are not sworn to secrecy.
  The question is not debatable.
  Pursuant to rule XXIX, I authorize the Secretary's desk staff and her 
Deputies and the Assistant Secretaries for the majority and minority to 
remain in the Chamber during the closed session.
  The doors will be closed.
  People who are not authorized to be here will please leave the 
Chamber.
  (At 12:55 p.m., the doors of the Chamber were closed.)
  (At 1:15 p.m., by a vote of 53 to 44, the doors of the Chamber were 
opened, and the open session of the Senate was resumed.)


                       Vote on Motion to Proceed

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the motion to 
proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 890, the 
nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the United States.
  The yeas and the nays were previously ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. 
Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--46

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Harris
     Jones
     Sinema
  The motion was agreed to

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