[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 98 (Monday, June 7, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3953-S3954]
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 Executive Calendar No. 130, Julien Xavier Neals, of New 
     Jersey, to be United States District Judge for the District 
     of New Jersey.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith, 
           Sherrod Brown, Jon Ossoff, Alex Padilla, Jacky Rosen, 
           Tammy Duckworth, Brian Schatz, Chris Van Hollen, 
           Catherine Cortez Masto, Robert Menendez, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Patty Murray, Martin Heinrich, Michael F. 
           Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse.

  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 Julien Xavier Neals, of New Jersey, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of New Jersey, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Sasse), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--28

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Romney
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Daines
     Ernst
     King
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Thune
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 66, 
the nays are 28.

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  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from New York.