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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. 988, Nancy L. Maldonado, of Illinois, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
Richard J. Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Tammy Baldwin, Robert
P. Casey, Jr., Margaret Wood Hassan, Christopher
Murphy, Jack Reed, Alex Padilla, Patty Murray, Sheldon
Whitehouse, Mazie K. Hirono, Jacky Rosen, Edward J.
Markey, Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Jeanne Shaheen,
Sherrod Brown.
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 Nancy L. Maldonado, of Illinois, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, and nays 41, as follows:
YEAS--53
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS--41
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker Young
NOT VOTING--6
Fischer Kennedy Leahy Moran Shelby Tuberville
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 41.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 119
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