[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 201 (Monday, November 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7105-S7106]
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 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 Taylor B. McNeel, 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.

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  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Taylor B. McNeel, 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 Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), 
the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally), and the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), 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?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--36

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

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Harris
     Heinrich
     Inhofe
     Loeffler
     McSally
     Murray
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Sinema
     Warren
     Whitehous
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 
36.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.