[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 19, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2349-S2350]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  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. 735, Sheria Akins Clarke, of South 
     Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District 
     of South Carolina.
         John Thune, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis, John Barrasso, Tim 
           Sheehy, Joni Ernst, Jon Husted, Katie Boyd Britt, David 
           McCormick, Mike Rounds, John Boozman, Bill Cassidy, 
           Rick Scott of Florida, Josh Hawley, Cynthia M. Lummis, 
           Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum 
call under rule XXII has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Sheria Akins Clarke, of South Carolina, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, 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 Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), 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 Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 126 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

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

                                NAYS--38

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Bennet
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Tillis
     Tuberville
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Armstrong). On this vote the yeas are 57, 
the nays are 38. The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.

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