[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4117]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to executive session.
  Under the previous order, there is now 2 minutes of debate equally 
divided prior to a cloture vote on the Leitman nomination.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to yield back 
the time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  All time is yielded back.
  The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair 
directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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 
     Matthew Frederick Leitman, of Michigan, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Carl Levin, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Barbara Boxer, Debbie Stabenow, Charles E. 
           Schumer, Patty Murray, Jeanne Shaheen, Amy Klobuchar, 
           Tom Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie K. Hirono, Joe 
           Donnelly, Jack Reed, Brian Schatz, 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 Matthew Frederick Leitman, of Michigan, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan 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 Missouri (Mrs. 
McCaskill) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 63 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
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--43

     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)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--2

     McCaskill
     Rockefeller
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55, the nays are 43.
  The motion to invoke cloture is agreed to.

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