[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 102 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4108]
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 executive 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. 510, Katherine E. Oler, of the 
     District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the 
     Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
     fifteen years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed, Benjamin 
           L. Cardin, Alex Padilla, Laphonza R. Butler, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Tammy Duckworth, Christopher 
           Murphy, Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Margaret 
           Wood Hassan, Mazie K. Hirono, Sherrod Brown, Tina 
           Smith, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jeff Merkley.

  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 Katherine E. Oler, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for 
the term of fifteen years, 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. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), 
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. 
Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), 
the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Wyoming 
(Ms. Lummis), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. 
Lummis) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--39

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Cotton
     Cramer
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Hoeven
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Risch
     Sinema
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 50, 
the nays are 39.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota.

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