[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 27, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S996-S997]
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 senior assistant 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. 470, David Seymour Leibowitz, of 
     Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
     District of Florida.
         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 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 David Seymour Leibowitz, of Florida, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), and 
the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 33, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 51 Ex.]

                                YEAS--64

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley

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     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--33

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Crapo
     Ricketts
     Tillis
  (Mr. OSSOFF assumed the Chair.)
  (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 64, the 
nays are 33.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Louisiana.
  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent--
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

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