[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9294]
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 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. 578, Katherine Marie Menendez, of 
     Minnesota, to be United States District Judge for the 
     District of Minnesota.
         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 Katherine Marie Menendez, of Minnesota, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, 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 Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from 
West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), 
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The followig Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator 
from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), 
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 Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), 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 Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), 
and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 522 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--21

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--30

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Burr
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Daines
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Lummis
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Klobuchar). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 21.
  The motion is agreed to.

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