[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, pursuant to rule XXII, 
the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the 
clerk will report.
  The assistant 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of 
     John J. McConnell, Jr., of Rhode Island, to be United States 
     District Judge for the District of Rhode Island.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, John F. Kerry, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Frank R. Lautenberg, Jack Reed, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Robert Menendez, Amy Klobuchar, Barbara 
           Boxer, Daniel K. Inouye, Mark Begich, Mark R. Warner, 
           Kent Conrad, John D. Rockefeller, IV, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Ron Wyden.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of John J. McConnell, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the 
District of Rhode Island, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and 
nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). Are there any other 
Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Alexander
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--33

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Coats
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Enzi
     Grassley
     Hoeven
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Kyl
     Lee
     Lugar
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Hatch
       

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Akaka
     Coburn
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 
33, with one Senator responding present. Three-fifths of the Senators 
duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is 
agreed to.

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