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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. 857, Evelyn Padin, of New Jersey, 
     to be United States District Judge for the District of New 
     Jersey.
         Charles E. Schumer, Cory A. Booker, Tammy Baldwin, 
           Patrick J. Leahy, Patty Murray, Tina Smith, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, John W. Hickenlooper, Gary C. Peters, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, Jon Tester, Richard 
           J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mazie K. Hirono, Amy 
           Klobuchar, Maria Cantwell.

  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 Evelyn Padin, of New Jersey, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of New Jersey, 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 Oregon (Mr. Merkley) and 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Murkowski), 
the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Boozman), I would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North 
Carolina, (Mr. Tillis, would have voted ``nay.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--39

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

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Boozman
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Rubio
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 52, 
the nays are 39.
  The motion is agreed to.

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