[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5976]
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                             Cloture Motion

  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. 304, Jerry Edwards, Jr., of 
     Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
     District of Louisiana.
         Richard J. Durbin, Peter Welch, Sheldon Whitehouse, Alex 
           Padilla, Christopher A. Coons, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Tina Smith, Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Mazie K. Hirono, Chris Van Hollen, Michael F. Bennet, 
           John W. Hickenlooper, Mark Kelly, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Tim Kaine, Patty Murray.

  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 Jerry Edwards, Jr., of Louisiana, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 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 Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 344 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--31

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Blumenthal
     Hagerty
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 66, the 
nays are 31.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). The Senator from Massachusetts.