[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 190 (Wednesday, December 7, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7017-S7018]
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 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. 1187, Kai N. Scott, of 
     Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the 
     Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tina 
           Smith, Michael F. Bennet, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tim 
           Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, Kirsten E. 
           Gillibrand, Angus S. King, Jr., Patty Murray, Robert P. 
           Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich, Jack Reed.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Kai N. Scott, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 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 Colorado (Mr. 
Hickenlooper), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 379 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Cruz
     Hickenlooper
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Warner
     Warnock
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the 
nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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