[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4437]
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                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). 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. 260, Joshua M. Divine, of Missouri, 
     to be United States District Judge for the Eastern and 
     Western Districts of Missouri.
         John Thune, Todd Young, Markwayne Mullin, John R. Curtis, 
           Shelley Moore Capito, Ted Budd, Ashley B. Moody, Tommy 
           Tuberville, Joni Ernst, John Barrasso, Cindy Hyde-
           Smith, Mike Rounds, Lindsey Graham, Pete Ricketts, Tim 
           Sheehy, Roger F. Wicker, Ted Cruz.

  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 Joshua M. Divine, of Missouri, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``YEA.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 412 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--46

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Slotkin
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Smith
     Tillis
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 
46, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.