[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 128 (Monday, August 1, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S3801]
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                             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. 1068, Elizabeth Wilson Hanes, of 
     Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
     District of Virginia.
         Charles E. Schumer, Christopher Murphy, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Tina Smith, Christopher A. Coons, Elizabeth Warren, 
           Jeanne Shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Alex Padilla, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters, Edward J. Markey, 
           Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Mazie K. 
           Hirono.

  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 Elizabeth Wilson Hanes, of Virginia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), 
the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 275 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Blunt
     Burr
     Cornyn
     Durbin
     Hawley
     Kennedy
     Leahy
     Merkley
     Moran
     Sasse
     Shelby
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 56 
and the nays are 33.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The majority leader.

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