[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9279]
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. 577, Linda Lopez, of California, to 
     be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
     California.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, Jack Reed, 
           Alex Padilla, Tammy Baldwin, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Christopher Murphy, Jeff Merkley, 
           Patty Murray, Ron Wyden, Tina Smith, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Cory A. Booker, Richard Blumenthal, Martin 
           Heinrich.

  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 Linda Lopez, of California, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of California, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the 
Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator 
from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), 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 Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
Paul), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator 
from Alabama (Mr. Shelby).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 508 Ex.]

                                YEAS--47

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

                                NAYS--30

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--23

     Burr
     Capito
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Daines
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Graham
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Moran
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Risch
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). The yeas are 47, the nays 
are 30.
  The motion is agreed to.

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