[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 167 (Wednesday, November 13, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6546]
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. 714, Cathy Fung, of California, to 
     be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of 
     fifteen years.
         Charles E. Schumer, Debbie Stabenow, Jack Reed, Michael 
           F. Bennet, Tim Kaine, Laphonza R. Butler, Angus S. 
           King, Jr., Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith, Catherine 
           Cortez Masto, Richard Blumenthal, Maria Cantwell, Patty 
           Murray, Jeanne Shaheen, Alex Padilla, Mazie K. Hirono, 
           Chris Van Hollen.

  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 Cathy Fung, of California, 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson) would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 260 Ex.]

                                YEAS--58

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

                                NAYS--37

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Johnson
     Kaine
     Sanders
     Sinema
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 58, 
the nays are 37.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.

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