[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 4117-4118]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Under the previous order, there 
will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a cloture vote on 
the Levy nomination.
  The Senator from Michigan.
  Mr. LEVIN. Madam President, I want to assure our colleagues that 
these nominees from Michigan have been selected--obviously by us--
following a very thorough screening committee with its broadly based 
recommendations. All four of these nominees are highly qualified, have 
judicial temperament, and Senator Stabenow and I can recommend them 
highly to the Senate.
  I thank my colleagues who are voting for cloture and then hope that 
the next vote after cloture we will see them confirmed.
  Again, we want to provide that assurance to our colleagues that this 
is a broadly based screening committee that we appoint which has 
recommended these nominees.
  I ask that all time be yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has been yielded back.
  Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion, which the clerk will state:
  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 
     Judith Ellen Levy, of Michigan, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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         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 Judith Ellen Levy, 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 rules.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Rockefeller) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Johnson (WI)
     Rockefeller
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 56, the nays are 42.
  The motion is agreed to.

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