[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 139 (Monday, September 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5871]
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. 705, Adam B. Abelson, of Maryland, 
     to be United States District Judge for the District of 
     Maryland.
         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 Adam B. Abelson, of Maryland, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Maryland, 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 California (Mr. 
Padilla), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from 
Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Murkowski
     Padilla
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Vance
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 50, 
the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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