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Cloture Motion
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. 1238, Jeffery Paul Hopkins, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla,
Michael F. Bennet, Brian Schatz, Robert P. Casey, Jr.,
Mazie K. Hirono, Chris Van Hollen, Jacky Rosen,
Margaret Wood Hassan, Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar,
Tina Smith, Debbie Stabenow, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten
E. Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth.
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 Jeffery Paul Hopkins, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, 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 Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 34, as follows:
YEAS--60
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden
NAYS--34
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Young
NOT VOTING--6
Cotton Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Schatz Warner
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 34.
The motion is agreed to.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 190
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