[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7447]
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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. 363, Toby J. Heytens, of Virginia,
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
Charles E. Schumer, Ben Ray Lujan, Richard J. Durbin,
Christopher A. Coons, Elizabeth Warren, John
Hickenlooper, Jacky Rosen, Brian Schatz, Tammy Baldwin,
Patrick J. Leahy, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Richard
Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Catherine Cortez Masto,
Cory A. Booker, Raphael Warnock, Alex Padilla.
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 Toby J. Heytens, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Fourth Circuit, 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. 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
Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Inhofe), 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 South
Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville), and
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young)
would have noted ``nay.''
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 31, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 448 Ex.]
YEAS--51
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gillibrand
Grassley
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--31
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Capito
Cassidy
Cornyn
Cotton
Crapo
Cruz
Ernst
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
Paul
Portman
Risch
Rubio
Sasse
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
NOT VOTING--18
Barrasso
Burr
Cramer
Daines
Feinstein
Fischer
Graham
Inhofe
Johnson
Kennedy
Moran
Romney
Rounds
Sanders
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Tuberville
Young
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, and the nays
are 31.
The motion is agreed to.
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