[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S232]
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. 467, Jacquelyn D. Austin, of South 
     Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District 
     of South Carolina.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Angus S. King, 
           Jr., Margaret Wood Hassan, Peter Welch, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Alex Padilla, Jeanne Shaheen, Jack Reed, Robert 
           P. Casey, Jr., Chris Van Hollen, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Gary C. Peters, Raphael G. Warnock, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Jeff Merkley, Christopher Murphy.

  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 Jacquelyn D. Austin, of South Carolina, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, 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 Arizona (Mr. Kelly) and 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 17, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 18 Ex.]

                                YEAS--79

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--17

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Cassidy
     Crapo
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Marshall
     Paul
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Barrasso
     Kelly
     Sanders
     Scott (SC)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 
17.
  The motion is agreed to.

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