[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 7, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S251-S252]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  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. 3, DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, of South 
     Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper, 
           Amy Klobuchar, Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Edward J. Markey, Alex Padilla, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto.

  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 DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, of South Carolina, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, shall be brought to a 
close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski

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     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Brown
     Graham
     Sullivan
  (Mr. MENENDEZ assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 54; the nays are 
43.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Virginia.

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