[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 17, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S1698]
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. 177, Darrel James Papillion, of 
     Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
     District of Louisiana.
         Charles E. Schumer, Raphael G. Warnock, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Jeanne Shaheen, Elizabeth Warren, Catherine Cortez 
           Masto, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jack Reed, Mark Kelly, 
           Tammy Duckworth, Chris Van Hollen, Amy Klobuchar, Peter 
           Welch, Jeff Merkley, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, 
           John Fetterman, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Sherrod Brown.

  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 Darrel James Papillion, of Louisiana, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 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 Delaware (Mr. Coons), 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), and the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 129 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

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

                                NAYS--33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Coons
     Feinstein
     Menendez
     Mullin
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). On this vote, the yeas are 63, 
the nays are 33.
  The motion is agreed to.

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