[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 177 (Thursday, October 7, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6990-S6991]
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. 259, Gustavo A. Gelpi, of Puerto 
     Rico, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher 
           Murphy, Gary C. Peters, Michael F. Bennet, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Benjamin L. Cardin, Patty Murray, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Tammy Duckworth, Patrick J. Leahy, Robert 
           Menendez, Bernard Sanders, Mark R. Warner, Tina Smith, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Ben Ray Lujan.
  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 Gustavo A. Gelpi, of Puerto Rico, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, 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 New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez), is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), and 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Marshall) would have voted ``nay''.
  (Mr. OSSOFF assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 39, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 413 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--39

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Blackburn
     Burr
     Cotton
     Hagerty
     Johnson
     Marshall
     Menendez
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 
39, and the motion is agreed to.

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