[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 195 (Tuesday, November 17, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7023-S7024]
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

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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 Toby Crouse, of Kansas, to be United States District Judge 
     for the District of Kansas.
         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 Toby Crouse, of Kansas, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Kansas, 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 Iowa (Mr. Grassley), 
and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea,'' the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) would have voted ``yea,'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Scott) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 234 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     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
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--44

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Alexander
     Grassley
     Harris
     Scott (FL)
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
44.
  The motion is agreed to.

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