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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 senior 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, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Executive Calendar No. 263, Christopher H. Schroeder, of North Carolina, to be Assistant Attorney General.
Charles E. Schumer, Ben Ray Lujan, Richard J. Durbin,
Elizabeth Warren, John Hickenlooper, Jacky Rosen, Brian
Schatz, Tammy Baldwin, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard
Blumenthal, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Christopher A.
Coons, Benjamin L. Cardin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Cory
A. Booker, Raphael G. Warnock, Alex Padilla.
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 Christopher H. Schroeder, of North Carolina, to be Assistant Attorney General, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays--41, as follows:
YEAS--55
BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBluntBookerBrownCantwellCardinCarperCaseyCollinsCoons Cortez MastoDuckworthDurbinGillibrandGrahamGrassleyHassanHeinrichHickenlooperHironoKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurkowskiMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaPetersPortmanReedRosenSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowTesterTillisVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden
NAYS--41
BarrassoBlackburnBoozmanBraunBurrCapitoCassidyCornynCottonCramerCrapoDainesErnstFischerHagertyHawleyHoevenHyde-SmithInhofeJohnsonKennedyLankfordLeeLummisMarshallMcConnellMoranPaulRischRomneyRubioSasseScott (FL)Scott (SC)ShelbySullivanThuneToomeyTubervilleWickerYoung
NOT VOTING--4
CruzFeinsteinRoundsSanders
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 41.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 189
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