[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 23 (Monday, February 2, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S436-S437]
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

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Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The senior 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. 610, David Clay Fowlkes, of 
     Arkansas, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
     District of Arkansas.
         John Thune, Pete Ricketts, Mike Crapo, Tim Sheehy, John 
           Cornyn, Roger Marshall, John Barrasso, Rick Scott of 
           Florida, Markwayne Mullin, Ted Budd, Cynthia M. Lummis, 
           Jim Justice, Katie Boyd Britt, Bernie Moreno, Tommy 
           Tuberville, Eric Schmitt, Jon A. Husted.

  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 David Clay Fowlkes, of Arkansas, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Dakota 
(Mr. Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from 
Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham) would have voted ``Yea'', the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Hagerty) would have voted ``Yea'', and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``Yea''.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) are necessarily 
absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 40, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 21 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Ricketts
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Blackburn
     Cramer
     Fetterman
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Lujan
     McConnell
     Paul
     Risch
     Scott (SC)
     Tillis
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). On this vote, the yeas are 49, 
the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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