[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 171 (Thursday, October 16, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7148-S7149]
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 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. 460, Harold D. Mooty III, of 
     Alabama, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
     District of Alabama.
         John Thune, Bernie Moreno, Katie Boyd Britt, Chuck 
           Grassley, James Lankford, Pete Ricketts, Markwayne 
           Mullin, Tim Sheehy, Jon Husted, Eric Schmitt, Jim 
           Justice, James E. Risch, Tom Cotton, Steve Daines, Ted 
           Budd, John R. Curtis, John Boozman.

  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 Harold D. Mooty III, of Alabama, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) 
is necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 574 Leg.]

                                YEAS--62

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schiff
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

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                                NAYS--34

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kim
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Cassidy
     Duckworth
     Tillis
     Tuberville
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hagerty). On this vote, the yeas are 62, 
the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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