[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 191 (Monday, November 9, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S6622]
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                             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 James Ray Knepp II, of Ohio, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Northern District of Ohio.
         Mitch McConnell, James E. Risch, Joni Ernst, Marsha 
           Blackburn, Mike Crapo, James Lankford, Thom Tillis, Roy 
           Blunt, Roger F. Wicker, Pat Roberts, Mike Rounds, John 
           Cornyn, John Hoeven, Jerry Moran, Lamar Alexander, Mike 
           Braun, David Perdue.

  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 James Ray Knepp II, of Ohio, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, 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 Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), 
the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from 
Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from 
Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 23, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

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

                                NAYS--23

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Casey
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     King
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Alexander
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Cortez Masto
     Daines
     Harris
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Moran
     Murray
     Schatz
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Young
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hyde-Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 
62, the nays are 23.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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