Buckeye Reporter

Sherrod Brown was mentioned in Cloture Vote (Executive Calendar) on page S7052 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Dec. 8 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Cloture Vote

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 Executive Calendar No. 1146, Dana M. Douglas, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jeff Merkley, Tina

Smith, Sheldon Whitehouse, Benjamin L. Cardin, Maria

Cantwell, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Ossoff, Mark Kelly, Jacky

Rosen, Brian Schatz, Mazie K. Hirono, Angus S. King,

Jr., Thomas R. Carper, Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine.

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 Dana M. Douglas, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The bill clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Kansas

(Mr. Moran).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 31, as follows:

YEAS--63

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy 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 Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young

NAYS--31

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville

NOT VOTING--6

Burr Capito Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Moran

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 31.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 191

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