[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7446-S7447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair 
lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
state.
  The bill 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. 471, Beth Robinson, of Vermont, to 
     be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.
          Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Jeff Merkley, Tammy Duckworth, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Brian Schatz, Patrick J. Leahy, Alex Padilla, Jack 
           Reed, Chris Van Hollen, Christopher Murphy, Jacky 
           Rosen, Edward J. Markey, Martin Heinrich, Christopher 
           A. Coons.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Beth Robinson, of Vermont, to be

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United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, shall be brought to 
a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Fischer), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the 
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  (Ms. CORTEZ MASTO assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 447 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--36

     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Barrasso
     Burr
     Cramer
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Moran
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)
     Young
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 51, the nays are 36.
  The motion is agreed to.

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