[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 186 (Thursday, November 9, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5443-S5444]
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 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. 222, Ana de Alba, of California, to 
     be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
         Richard J. Durbin, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla, Mark 
           Kelly, Jeanne Shaheen, Jack Reed, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Brian Schatz, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Ron 
           Wyden, Tim Kaine, Raphael G. Warnock, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, John W. Hickenlooper, Amy Klobuchar, Tammy 
           Duckworth.

  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 Ana de Alba, of California, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for 
the Ninth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Heinrich) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 
the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) 
would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 307 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester

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     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Cramer
     Heinrich
     Marshall
     Murkowski
     Rubio
     Scott (SC)
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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