[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 20, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2456]
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. 465, Edward Sunyol Kiel, of New 
     Jersey, to be United States District Judge for the District 
     of New Jersey.
         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 Edward Sunyol Kiel, of New Jersey, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of New Jersey, 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 Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 95 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     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
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--48

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Mullin
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 
50, the nays are 48.
  The motion is agreed to.

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