[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 103 (Thursday, June 16, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2991-S2992]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). 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. 969, Ana Isabel de Alba, of 
     California, to be United States District Judge for the 
     Eastern District of California.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Alex Padilla, Christopher A. Coons, Gary C. 
           Peters, Elizabeth Warren, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy 
           Baldwin, Tina Smith, Mark R. Warner, Edward J. Markey, 
           Robert P. Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Sherrod Brown, Margaret Wood Hassan.

  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 Ana Isabel de Alba, of California, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-

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Smith), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--43

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Daines
     Hyde-Smith
     Romney
     Sanders
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the 
nays 43.
  The motion was agreed to.


                    Nomination of Ana Isabel de Alba

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, this work period, the Senate will continue 
to confirm highly qualified, diverse nominees to the Federal judiciary.
  First on the list is Judge Ana Isabel de Alba, who has been nominated 
to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
  A San Joaquin Valley native, Judge de Alba has served as a Superior 
Court Judge for Fresno County, CA, since 2018. She has presided over 
thousands of hearings and more than seven bench trials before the 
court's Criminal Misdemeanor Division, the Juvenile Justice Division, 
and the Environmental Quality Act Panel.
  Prior to her judicial service, Judge de Alba practiced for 11 years 
at a Fresno-area law firm, where she became partner in just 5 years and 
specialized in business, employment, construction, and personal injury 
law. In addition to her expansive litigation practice before California 
State courts, Judge de Alba handled many administrative law trials 
before a State agency as well as a Federal jury trial.
  Judge de Alba earned her B.A. with highest honors and her J.D. from 
the University of California at Berkeley.
  The American Bar Association has unanimously rated Judge de Alba as 
``Qualified'' to serve on the Eastern District of California, and she 
also has received the strong support of her home State Senators, Mrs. 
Feinstein and Mr. Padilla.
  With her record of fair-minded judicial service and years of 
litigation experience, Judge de Alba will serve her home district well 
as a Federal district court judge.

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