[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 38 (Tuesday, February 28, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S516-S517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The VICE PRESIDENT. 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. 13, Margaret R. Guzman, of 
     Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the 
     District of Massachusetts.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jack Reed, Robert 
           P. Casey, Jr., Mark Kelly, Patty Murray, Tim Kaine, 
           Jeff Merkley, Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren, 
           Tammy Baldwin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, John 
           W. Hickenlooper, Christopher Murphy, Brian Schatz, 
           Debbie Stabenow, Alex Padilla.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). 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 Margaret R. Guzman, of Massachusetts, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, shall be brought to a 
close?

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  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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Crapo).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 48, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--48

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Crapo
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Merkley
  (Mr. WARNOCK assumed the Chair.)
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 48.
  The Senate being evenly divided, the Vice President votes in the 
affirmative.
  The motion is agreed to.

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