[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 150 (Wednesday, September 25, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6397]
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                             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 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. 787, Byron B. Conway, of Wisconsin, 
     to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
     of Wisconsin.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Ben Ray Lujan, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse, 
           Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen, Tina 
           Smith, Christopher A. Coons, Margaret Wood Hassan, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Martin Heinrich, Alex Padilla.

  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 Byron B. Conway, of Wisconsin, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 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 Delaware (Mr. Coons) and 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), and 
the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 253 Ex.]

                                YEAS--58

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

                                NAYS--37

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Coons
     Cotton
     Schatz
     Scott (FL)
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Helmy). On this vote, the yeas are 58, the 
nays are 37.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The Senator from Delaware.