[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 171 (Tuesday, November 19, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6625]
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 assistant bill 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. 651, Rebecca L. Pennell, of 
     Washington, to be United States District Judge for the 
     Eastern District of Washington.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Peter Welch, Cory 
           A. Booker, John W. Hickenlooper, Martin Heinrich, 
           Laphonza R. Butler, Elizabeth Warren, Jack Reed, 
           Margaret Wood Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto, Alex 
           Padilla, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tammy Baldwin, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Gary C. Peters, and Brian Schatz.

  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 Rebecca L. Pennell, of Washington, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), 
the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Hagerty), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Vance), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--42

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Braun
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hagerty
     Manchin
     Rubio
     Vance
     Wicker
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the 
nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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