[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15793]
[From the U.S. 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 bill 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 
     Leslie Joyce Abrams, of Georgia, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Middle District of Georgia.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Mazie K. Hirono, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Angus S. King, Jr., Jon Tester, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Bill Nelson, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Elizabeth Warren, Brian Schatz, Al Franken, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tim Kaine, Charles E. 
           Schumer, Tom Harkin.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
nomination of Leslie Joyce Abrams, of Georgia, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, shall be brought to 
a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), 
the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan), and the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 28, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 277 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Isakson
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--28

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Corker
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johanns
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Boxer
     Coburn
     Hagan
     Sanders
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 
28.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture on the Cohen nomination.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I yield back time on this side.
  Mr. HATCH. I yield back time on our side.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is 
so ordered.

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