[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 184 (Tuesday, November 7, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5393]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             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 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. 38, Ramon Ernesto Reyes, Jr., of 
     New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
     District of New York.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tim 
           Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Raphael G. 
           Warnock, Tammy Duckworth, Jack Reed, John W. 
           Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Brian Schatz, Christopher Murphy, Tina Smith, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Sheldon Whitehouse.

  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 Ramon Ernesto Reyes, Jr., of New York, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Hickenlooper) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), 
and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 46, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 298 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     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
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--46

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

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Britt
     Cassidy
     Hickenlooper
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the 
nays are 46.
  The motion is agreed to.

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