[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 196 (Wednesday, November 18, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7059]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum call with respect to the Mizelle nomination be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The senior assistant 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 Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, of Florida, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Middle District of Florida.
         Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Mike Crapo, Shelley 
           Moore Capito, John Cornyn, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Steve 
           Daines, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Thom Tillis, Richard 
           Burr, Pat Roberts, Cory Gardner, Tom Cotton, John 
           Boozman, John Hoeven, Lindsey Graham.

  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 Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, of Florida, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Gardner), 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 (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 
are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--43

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

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Alexander
     Feinstein
     Gardner
     Grassley
     Harris
     Murray
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
43.
  The motion is agreed to.

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