[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18565-18566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to report the motion to invoke 
cloture.
  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 
     Elizabeth A. Wolford, of New York, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Western District of New York.
         Harry Reid, Sherrod Brown, Richard J. Durbin, Christopher 
           Murphy, Robert Menendez, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. 
           King, Jr., Martin Heinrich, Amy Klobuchar, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Tom Udall, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Bernard 
           Sanders, Barbara Boxer, Brian Schatz, Robert P. Casey, 
           Jr., Thomas R. Carper, Benjamin L. Cardin, Michael F. 
           Bennet.


                              Quorum Call

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair now asks the 
clerk to call the roll to ascertain the presence of a quorum.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll and the following 
Senators entered the Chamber and answered to their names:

                             [Quorum No. 6]

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cruz
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (WI)
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Lee
     Markey
     McCain
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Elizabeth A. Wolford, of New York, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of New York, 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 Montana (Mr. Baucus) and 
the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Shelby).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 259 Ex.]

                                YEAS--55

     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow

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     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--41

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Flake
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Baucus
     Kirk
     Rockefeller
     Shelby
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). On this vote the yeas are 55, the 
nays 41. The motion is agreed to.


                            Vote Explanation

  Mr. BAUCUS. Madam President, I thought I had voted on the last vote 
but apparently it was not registered. Had it been registered, I would 
have voted aye.
  I thank the Chair.

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