[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 200 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5725-S5726]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Padilla). 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. 263, Loren L. AliKhan, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be United States District Judge for 
     the District of Columbia.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Mark Kelly, Jack Reed, John W. Hickenlooper, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeff Merkley, 
           Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Mazie K. Hirono, Tina Smith, Edward J. Markey, Tim 
           Kaine, Tammy Baldwin.

  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 Loren L. AliKhan, of the District of

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Columbia, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, 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.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 327 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--50

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young
  (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any Senators in the Chamber who wish to 
vote or change their vote?
  If not, on this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. The Senate 
being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the affirmative, and 
the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam Vice President, today is historic. Vice President 
Harris has just cast her 32nd tiebreaking vote--the most tiebreakers 
ever. I join all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, thanking 
the Vice President for her leadership and for making the work of the 
Senate possible.
  The record Vice President Harris sets today is significant not just 
because of the number but because of what she has made possible with 
tiebreaking votes. Without her tiebreaking votes, there would be no 
American Rescue Plan, no Inflation Reduction Act, and we would not have 
confirmed many of the excellent Federal judges now presiding on the 
bench. Every time duty has called, Vice President Harris has answered 
more than any other Vice President in our Nation's long and storied 
history.
  Today, I also want to thank the Vice President for doing all of this 
while juggling the immense responsibilities of her office. She has led 
the charge on protecting freedom of choice. She has fought for climate 
justice, criminal justice reform, and commonsense gun safety. Our 
children--our children--will live in a healthier, more secure, more 
prosperous nation thanks to her lifetime of service.
  So thank you, Vice President Harris. This is a great milestone, and 
yours is an even greater legacy. Let us continue working together to 
make life better for all Americans.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Thank you, majority leader.