[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 9, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1421]
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 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 Executive Calendar No. 27, Merrick Brian Garland, of 
     Maryland, to be Attorney General.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Christopher A. Coons, Patty Murray, Chris 
           Van Hollen, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Brian 
           Schatz, Cory A. Booker, Debbie Stabenow, Amy Klobuchar, 
           Jon Ossoff, Alex Padilla, Benjamin L. Cardin, Sherrod 
           Brown, Angus S. King, Jr., Tim Kaine.

  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 Merrick Brian Garland, of Maryland, to be Attorney 
General, 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 Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer).
   The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 70, nays 29, as follows;

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Ex.]

                                YEAS--70

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--29

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Cramer

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). On this vote, the yeas are 
70, the nays are 29.
  The motion is agreed to.

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