[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 46 (Thursday, March 14, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2386]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion to invoke 
cloture.
  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. 461, Nicole G. Berner, of Maryland, 
     to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
         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 Nicole G. Berner, of Maryland, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, 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 Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), 
the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator 
from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 40, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--40

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Boozman
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Daines
     Markey
     Mullin
     Romney
     Rubio
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sullivan
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 48, 
the nays are 40.
  The motion is agreed to.