Cloture Motion (Executive Calendar)

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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 executive 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. 829, Michael C. Martin, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. John Thune, Tim Sheehy, John Barrasso, Pete Ricketts, Thom Tillis, Rick Scott of Florida, John Cornyn, Steve Daines, Bernie Moreno, John R. Curtis, Chuck Grassley, Jim Banks, Mike Crapo, James Lankford, Kevin Cramer, Mike Rounds, Ted Budd.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the nomination of Michael C. Martin, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 35, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 203 Ex.]

YEAS--60

Armstrong Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tuberville Whitehouse Wicker Young

NAYS--35

Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Kelly Kim Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Wyden

NOT VOTING--5

Budd Coons McConnell Murkowski Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Armstrong). On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to.

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