[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 202 (Thursday, December 7, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5840]
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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 bill 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. 352, Richard E.N. Federico, of 
     Kansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth 
     Circuit.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Alex Padilla, Richard Blumenthal, Cory A. 
           Booker, Benjamin L. Cardin, Chris Van Hollen, Tammy 
           Duckworth, Brian Schatz, Tammy Baldwin, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Tina Smith, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher 
           Murphy, Peter Welch, Christopher A. Coons.

  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 Richard E.N. Federico, of Kansas, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from 
South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) 
would have voted ``yea''.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 335 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--32

     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Blackburn
     Cramer
     Lujan
     Moran
     Rounds
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 63, 
the nays are 32.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Hawaii.