[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 19 (Thursday, February 1, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S327]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 477, Lisa W. Wang, of the District 
     of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of 
     International Trade.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, 
           Mazie K. Hirono, Tina Smith, Gary C. Peters, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Raphael G. Warnock, Catherine Cortez Masto, 
           Alex Padilla, Mark R. Warner, Tim Kaine, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Peter Welch.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Lisa W. Wang, of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge 
of the United States Court of International Trade, 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 Michigan (Mr. Peters) 
and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, and nays 43, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Barrasso
     Hoeven
     Peters
     Stabenow
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the 
nays are 43.
  The motion is agreed to.