[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 71 (Thursday, April 27, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1406-S1407]
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 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. 22, Anthony Devos Johnstone, of 
     Montana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tim 
           Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Raphael G. 
           Warnock, Tammy Duckworth, Jack Reed, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, John W. Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Tammy Baldwin, Brian Schatz, Christopher Murphy, 
           Tina Smith, Debbie Stabenow.

  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 Anthony Devos Johnstone, of Montana, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--45

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Braun
     Feinstein
     Lee
     Moran
     Warnock
  (Mr. WELCH assumed the Chair.)
  (Mr. KELLY assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The yeas are 50, the nays are 45, 
and the motion is agreed to.

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  The motion was agreed to.

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