[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 169 (Monday, October 16, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4974]
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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. 309, Jennifer L. Hall, of 
     Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the 
     District of Delaware.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, 
           Mazie K. Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Alex Padilla, Patty Murray, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Debbie Stabenow, Tina Smith, Benjamin L. Cardin, Chris 
           Van Hollen, Tim Kaine, Brian Schatz, Christopher 
           Murphy, Peter Welch.

  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 Jennifer L. Hall, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Delaware, 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. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. 
Butler), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from 
Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 26, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 254 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Budd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     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
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Mullin
     Ricketts
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Barrasso
     Butler
     Capito
     Cruz
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 63, 
the nays are 26.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota.

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