[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 3 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S13-S14]
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. 376, John A. Kazen, of Texas, to be
United States District Judge for the Southern District of
Texas.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith, Alex
Padilla, Jack Reed, Patty Murray, Christopher A. Coons,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie K. Hirono, Peter Welch,
Richard Blumenthal, Jeanne Shaheen, Margaret Wood
Hassan, Chris Van Hollen, Brian Schatz, John W.
Hickenlooper, Robert P. Casey, Jr.
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 John A. Kazen, of Texas, to be United States District
Judge for the Southern District of Texas, 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.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs.
Cantwell), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the
Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman),
the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Arizona (Mr.
Cotton), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from
Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator
from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr.
Scott).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 73, nays 15, as follows:
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[Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.]
YEAS--73
Baldwin
Bennet
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Budd
Butler
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Ernst
Fischer
Gillibrand
Grassley
Hagerty
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Kaine
Kelly
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Manchin
Markey
McConnell
Menendez
Merkley
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Ricketts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Sanders
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Tester
Tillis
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wicker
Wyden
Young
NAYS--15
Braun
Britt
Hawley
Hoeven
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
Mullin
Paul
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Sullivan
Thune
Tuberville
Vance
NOT VOTING--12
Barrasso
Boozman
Cantwell
Cassidy
Cotton
Fetterman
Graham
Lujan
Moran
Risch
Rubio
Scott (SC)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 73,
the nays are 15.
The motion is agreed to.
The majority leader.
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