[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 43 (Monday, March 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2339-S2340]
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. 543, Jasmine Hyejung Yoon, of 
     Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
     District of Virginia.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tina 
           Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C. 
           Peters, Tim Kaine, Richard Blumenthal, Jack Reed, 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Peter Welch, Mark. R. Warner, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Tammy Duckworth, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Debbie Stabenow.

  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 Jasmine Hyejung Yoon, of Virginia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. 
Hassan), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from 
New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), 
and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.

[[Page S2340]]

  

  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), 
the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. 
Hyde-Smith), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 38, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Braun
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hassan
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Menendez
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Stabenow
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 52, 
the nays are 38.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.