[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 213 (Thursday, December 9, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9081-S9082]
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. 533, Jennifer Sung, of Oregon, to 
     be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Chris Van Hollen, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patty Murray, Alex Padilla, 
           Tina Smith, Ben Ray Lujan, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Cory A. Booker, 
           Brian Schatz.

  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 Jennifer Sung, of Oregon, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Ninth 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 Maine (Mr. King) and the 
Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), 
the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Rounds), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 493 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey

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     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--39

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Collins
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Romney
     Rubio
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     King
     Risch
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Sinema
     Tillis
     Toomey

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