[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S1031]
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. 469, Melissa Damian, 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 Melissa Damian, 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 executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Smith) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 20, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 57 Ex.]

                                YEAS--77

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

                                NAYS--20

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Crapo
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Booker
     Klobuchar
     Smith
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 77, 
the nays are 20.
  The motion was agreed to.

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