[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 24, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2658-S2659]
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 executive 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. 915, Charlotte N. Sweeney, of 
     Colorado, to be United States District Judge for the District 
     of Colorado.
         Charles E. Schumer, Tina Smith, Christopher Murphy, Tim 
           Kaine, Patrick J. Leahy, Jack Reed, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, Jacky Rosen, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Margaret Wood Hassan, Martin Heinrich, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Tammy Baldwin.

  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 Charlotte N. Sweeney, of Colorado, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Colorado, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), and the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 
the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.''

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  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--42

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Boozman
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Rubio
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 
42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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