[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12307]
[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.

                             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 
     Julie E. Carnes, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit 
     Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
         Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Patty 
           Murray, Elizabeth Warren, Charles E. Schumer, Jack 
           Reed, Christopher A. Coons, Dianne Feinstein, Angus S. 
           King, Jr., Benjamin L. Cardin, Mazie K. Hirono, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar, Christopher Murphy, Cory A. 
           Booker, Martin Heinrich.

  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 Julie E. Carnes, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, 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 Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Sanders), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 23, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 232 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

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

                                NAYS--23

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Johnson (WI)
     Kirk
     Lee
     McConnell
     Risch
     Rubio
     Scott
     Thune
     Toomey
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Alexander
     Begich
     Coburn
     Coons
     Moran
     Paul
     Roberts
     Sanders
     Schatz
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 68, the nays are 23. 
The motion is agreed to.

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