[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 144 (Thursday, September 8, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4509]
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 bill 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. 986, Salvador Mendoza, Jr., of 
     Washington, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Ben Ray Lujan, 
           Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Tina Smith, Angus S. King, Jr., 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A. 
           Coons, Alex Padilla, Chris Van Hollen, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Tim Kaine.

  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 Salvador Mendoza, Jr., of Washington, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the 
Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowsi), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 330 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

     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
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Padilla
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

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

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Burr
     Crapo
     Menendez
     Murkowski
     Ossoff
     Peters
     Portman
     Rosen
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 
48, the nays are 43.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                     Remembering Queen Elizabeth II

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, today, we take a solemn and somber pause. 
A few minutes ago, we learned the sad news of the passing of Her 
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning Monarch in British 
history. I join with Leader McConnell, with my Senate colleagues, and 
with all Americans to offer deepest sympathies and prayers to the royal 
family and to the people of the United Kingdom.
  I never had the honor of meeting Her Majesty the Queen myself, but I 
admired much about her until the very end. It is hard to fathom that 
today we have to say goodbye because, after all, most Americans--to say 
nothing of the British people--have never lived in a world without Her 
Majesty the Queen.
  It is a marvel to think that in the same year of Her Majesty's 
coronation, Harry Truman was in the White House. The world was still 
coming out of the shadow of the Second World War, entering a bold, 
uncertain, unchartered future.
  In her time, she came to know 15 different Prime Ministers, 14 U.S. 
Presidents, traveled to well over 100 countries, and made over 200 
official state visits. She was the first British Monarch ever to 
address a joint session of Congress. And thanks to her, the special 
relationship between the United States and the UK gained even more 
special significance.
  Her reign saw the dawn of the atomic age, the age of the internet, 
the fall of the Soviet Union, an unprecedented global pandemic. She 
didn't just witness the great turns of history; she helped shape them 
over the seven decades--seven decades--of her reign. And every step of 
the way, she was precisely the kind of leader the moment demanded.
  In times of hardship, she was both strong and comforting. In times of 
joy, she was gracious and dignified. She was a rock, the living 
embodiment of the virtues that lie at the core of the nation she so 
proudly led. I dare say we will never see a leader quite like her for 
as long as we live.
  So, today, we join the people of the UK and the royal family in 
mourning the loss of Her Majesty the Queen. May she rest in peace.

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