[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 10, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2711]
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                             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. 745, 
Anthony J. Powell, of Kansas, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Kansas.
         John Thune, Tim Sheehy, Pete Ricketts, Mike Rounds, John 
           Barrasso, Ted Budd, Jim Banks, Rick Scott of Florida, 
           Todd Young, David McCormick, Shelley Moore Capito, 
           Jerry Moran, Jon A. Husted, John Boozman, Mike Crapo, 
           Katie Boyd Britt, John R. Curtis.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Anthony J. Powell, of Kansas, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Kansas, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Moreno), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) 
and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 167 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--45

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     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--7

     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Crapo
     Graham
     Moreno
     Smith
     Tillis
  (Mr. DAINES assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). On this vote, the yeas are 48, 
the nays are 45.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas.