[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 194 (Monday, November 16, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6719-S6720]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). 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 Kristi Haskins Johnson, of Mississippi, to be United 
     States District Judge for the Southern District of 
     Mississippi.
         Mitch McConnell, Mike Crapo, Tom Cotton, David Perdue, 
           Mike Rounds, Pat Roberts, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kevin 
           Cramer, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, Tim Scott, James 
           E. Risch, Michael B. Enzi, John Cornyn, Roger F. 
           Wicker, John Thune, 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 Kristi Haskins Johnson, of Mississippi, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, 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 Florida (Mr. Scott), 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the 
Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner

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     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker

                                NAYS--38

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Casey
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Alexander
     Blumenthal
     Cardin
     Coons
     Daines
     Harris
     Murray
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)
     Whitehouse
     Youn
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 51, and the nays are 38.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.


                           order of procedure

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 
notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXII, the postcloture time on 
the Johnson nomination expire at 11 a.m. tomorrow and the Senate vote 
on confirmation of the nomination. I further ask that if cloture is 
invoked on the Beaton nomination, the postcloture time expire at 2:15 
p.m. tomorrow and the Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination. 
Finally, if any of the nominations are confirmed, the motions to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the President 
be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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