[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 7373-7374]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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NOMINATION OF SRIKANTH SRINIVASAN TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR 
                    THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I now move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 95.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed.
  Without objection, the motion is agreed to.

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  The clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       Nomination of Srikanth Srinivasan, of Virginia, to be 
     United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia 
     Circuit.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the clerk will report the motion.
  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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of 
     Srikanth Srinivasan, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit 
     Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Bill Nelson, Christopher A. 
           Coons, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Kaine, Jack Reed, Barbara A. 
           Mikulski, Mark R. Warner, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod 
           Brown, Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Tom 
           Harkin, Bernard Sanders, Al Franken, Robert Menendez.

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under 
rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, we are moving forward. This will be the 
sixth or seventh year we have tried to fill vacancies on the DC 
Circuit. There are four vacancies there. I hope the President sends us 
some more names. I understand that will be the case maybe before the 
end of this week.
  It is outrageous we have been stopped procedurally from doing the 
work of this country in filling these nominations in this very 
important court. We are going to have a cloture vote on this on 
Thursday, as we should do, and hopefully finish by the end of the week. 
If we get cloture, we will finish by the end of the week if we have to 
stay over another day or so.

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