[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4263-S4264]
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

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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. 512, 
Charles J. Willoughby, Jr., 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, Richard Blumenthal, 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 Charles J. Willoughby, Jr., 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. 
Ernst), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) 
would have noted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 207 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--39

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Budd
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Menendez
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the 
nays are 39.
  The motion is agreed to.

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