[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 80 (Thursday, May 11, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S1614]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 4, Bradley N. Garcia, of Maryland, 
     to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of 
     Columbia 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, Gary C. Peters.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Bradley N. Garcia, of Maryland, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Marshall), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Budd) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Marshall) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 124 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--41

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Budd
     Cruz
     Hoeven
     Marshall
     Moran
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 54, 
the nays are 41.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.