[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3509-S3510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 989, Gregory Brian Williams, of 
     Delaware, to be United States District Judge for the District 
     of Delaware.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Robert P. Casey, 
           Jr., Sherrod Brown, Tammy Baldwin, Tina Smith, Jeanne 
           Shaheen, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Benjamin L. Cardin, Christopher Murphy, 
           Maria Cantwell, Christopher A. Coons, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters, Tammy Duckworth.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent, the mandatory 
quorum call has been waived.

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  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Gregory Brian Williams, of Delaware, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Delaware, 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 Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Massachusetts 
(Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 262 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--43

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Kennedy
     Leahy
     Markey
     Warren
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 52, the nays are 
43.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.
  (The remarks of Mr. Cardin pertaining to the introduction of S. Res. 
713 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced 
Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')
  Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.