[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S508]
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. 654, Leonard Philip Stark, of 
     Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Gary C. Peters, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Martin Henrich, Sherrod Brown, 
           Patty Murray, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, Elizabeth 
           Warren, Mazie K. Hirono, Alex Padilla, Tina Smith, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Tester.

  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 Leonard Philip Stark, of Delaware, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Federal 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 New York (Mrs. 
Gillibrand), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the 
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from South Dakota 
(Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 33, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 35 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Burr
     Cramer
     Daines
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     King
     Lujan
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Toomey
     Tuberville
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 
33.
  The motion is agreed to.

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