[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 42 (Monday, March 6, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S653]
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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. 31, Robert Stewart Ballou, of 
     Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
     District of Virginia.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Ben Ray 
           Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Martin Heinrich, Christopher 
           Murphy, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla.

  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 Robert Stewart Ballou, of Virginia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western 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 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and 
the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 35, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 40 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

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

                                NAYS--35

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Barrasso
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Risch
     Sanders
     Sullivan
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 59, the 
nays are 35.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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