[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S1500]
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 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. 125, LaShonda A. Hunt, of Illinois, 
     to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
     of Illinois.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, John 
           W. Hickenlooper, Margaret Wood Hassan, Gary C. Peters, 
           Mark Kelly, Jack Reed, Tammy Duckworth, Christopher 
           Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Catherine Cortez Masto, 
           Mazie K. Hirono, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, 
           Tammy Baldwin, Angus S. King, Jr., Alex Padilla, Robert 
           Menendez, Michael F. Bennet.

  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 LaShonda A. Hunt, of Illinois, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator 
from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Cramer
     Feinstein
     Sanders
     Shaheen
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 
42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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