[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 12388-12389]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     EXECUTIVE CALENDAR--Continued


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination 
     of Kevin Christopher Newsom, of Alabama, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
         Dan Sullivan, John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Orrin G. Hatch, 
           Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Tom Cotton, Richard Burr, 
           James Lankford, Lamar Alexander, John Kennedy, Cory 
           Gardner, James M. Inhofe, Michael B. Enzi, John Thune, 
           Richard C. Shelby, Mitch McConnell.

  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 Kevin Christopher Newsom, of Alabama, 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.

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  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 180 Leg.]

                                YEAS--68

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Capito
     Cardin
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Strange
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Kaine
     King
     Manchin
     Markey
     Murray
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Burr
     Graham
     McCain
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Peters
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 
26.
  The motion is agreed to.
  The majority leader.

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