[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 31, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5653-S5654]
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. 709, Joseph Francis Saporito, Jr., 
     of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the 
     Middle District of Pennsylvania.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Peter Welch, John 
           W. Hickenlooper, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jack Reed, 
           Laphonza R. Butler, Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin L. 
           Cardin, Tammy Baldwin, Christopher Murphy, Chris Van 
           Hollen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tammy Duckworth, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Sheldon Whitehouse.

  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 Joseph Francis Saporito, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 
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 Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay''.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

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                                NAYS--39

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

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Fetterman
     Hoeven
     Kelly
     Lee
     Menendez
     Romney
     Scott (SC)
     Vance
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 52, 
the nays are 39, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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