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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 bill 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. 658, David Augustin Ruiz, of Ohio, 
     to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
     of Ohio.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Gary C. Peters, Robert P. Casey, Jr., 
           Sheldon Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Sherrod Brown, 
           Patty Murray, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, Elizabeth 
           Warren, Mazie K. Hirono, Alex Padilla, Tina Smith, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Tester.

  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 David Augustin Ruiz, of Ohio, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent,
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Romney).
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 38, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 16 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Lujan
     Romney
     Sanders
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 
38.
  The motion is agreed to.

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