[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16619-16620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate equally 
divided prior to a cloture vote on the Griggsby nomination.
  Mr. VITTER. I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The assistant 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 
     Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United 
     States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Robert Menendez, Patty 
           Murray, Debbie Stabenow, Benjamin L. Cardin, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Christopher Murphy, 
           Brian Schatz, Richard J. Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, 
           Tom Harkin, Angus S. King, Jr., Tom Udall, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Sheldon Whitehouse.

  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 Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall), and 
the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the 
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 311 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Ayotte
     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
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--36

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

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cruz
     Kirk
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Rockefeller
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 
36.

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  The motion is agreed to.

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