[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 1, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S436]
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. 410, Sean C. Staples, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the 
     Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
     fifteen years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Catherine Cortez Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Margaret Wood Hassan, Mark Kelly, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, 
           Angus S. King, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich, 
           Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen.

  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 Sean C. Staples, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for 
the term of fifteen years, 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 New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), 
the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), 
the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 38, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 20 Ex.]

                                YEAS--55

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Blunt
     Hoeven
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Romney
     Toomey
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55, the nays are 38.
  The motion is agreed to.

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