[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 118 (Monday, July 20, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S4150]
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 senior assistant executive 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. 775, Benjamin M. Flowers, of Ohio, 
     to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.

         John Thune, Tim Sheehy, John Barrasso, Ashley B. Moody, 
           James Lankford, Todd Young, Ted Budd, Pete Ricketts, 
           Jon A. Husted, Mike Crapo, Mike Rounds, Tim Scott of 
           South Carolina, Bernie Moreno, John Cornyn, Chuck 
           Grassley, James C. Justice, Eric Schmitt.

  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 Benjamin M. Flowers, of Ohio, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Sixth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. 
Britt), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator 
from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Florida (Mrs. Moody), 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez 
Masto), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from 
California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Hampshire 
(Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), are 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 43, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Ex.]

                                YEAS--43

     Armstrong
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McCormick
     Moreno
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Boozman
     Britt
     Cortez Masto
     Cruz
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Kennedy
     McConnell
     Moody
     Moran
     Padilla
     Risch
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Tuberville
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). On this vote, the yeas are 43, 
the nays are 40, and the motion is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.

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