[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 193 (Thursday, November 12, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6660-S6661]
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 bill 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 Aileen Mercedes Cannon, of Florida, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Southern District of Florida.
         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 Aileen Mercedes Cannon, of Florida, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), 
the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch), 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'' and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Young) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator 
from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Tester), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. 
Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

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

                                NAYS--21

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Booker
     Brown
     Cardin
     Casey
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Hirono

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     King
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Merkley
     Peters
     Reed
     Schumer
     Smith
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--22

     Alexander
     Blumenthal
     Braun
     Cantwell
     Durbin
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Loeffler
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murray
     Paul
     Risch
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Whitehouse
     Youn
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 
21.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Missouri.