[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 3805-3806]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The cloture motion having been presented, under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read 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 
     Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez, of Puerto Rico, to be United 
     States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Benjamin L. Cardin, Mark L. 
           Pryor, Mark Begich, Tom Harkin, Amy Klobuchar, 
           Christopher Murphy, Patty Murray, Jon Tester, Richard 
           J. Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Angus S. King, Jr., Claire 
           McCaskill, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jack 
           Reed.

  The VICE PRESIDENT. 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 Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez, of Puerto Rico, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. HATCH (when his name was called). ``Present.''
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cornyn).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?

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  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 41, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 49 Ex.]

                                YEAS--57

     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
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--41

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

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Hatch
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Cornyn
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 57, the nays are 41, 
with one Senator voting ``present.''
  The motion to invoke cloture is agreed to.

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