[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5331-S5332]
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. 701, Kashi Way, of Maryland, to be 
     a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen 
     years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Ron Wyden, Alex Padilla, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Kelly, Jack 
           Reed, Tim Kaine, John W. Hickenlooper, Christopher 
           Murphy, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Richard Blumenthal, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Christopher A. Coons, Margaret Wood 
           Hassan, Chris Van Hollen, Tammy Baldwin, Tina Smith.

  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 Kashi Way, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United 
States Tax Court for a 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 Virginia (Mr. Kaine), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the 
Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 16, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner

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     Warnock
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--16

     Blackburn
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Ernst
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Hagerty
     Kaine
     Lee
     Menendez
     Vance
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 78, 
the nays are 16, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.