[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9299]
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. 635, Holly A. Thomas, of 
     California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Alex Padilla, Catherine Cortez Masto, 
           Patty Murray, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Chris Van Hollen, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, Gary C. Peters, Tina 
           Smith, Jack Reed, Martin Heinrich, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Richard Blumenthal.

  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 Holly A. Thomas, of California, 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 bill 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), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), 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 Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 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 42, nays 25, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 528 Ex.]

                                YEAS--42

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

                                NAYS--25

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

                             NOT VOTING--33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Burr
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Daines
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Lummis
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 42, the 
nays are 25.
  The motion is agreed to.

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