[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 201 (Monday, November 30, 2020)] [Senate] [Pages S7105-S7106] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] 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 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 Taylor B. McNeel, of Mississippi, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi. Mitch McConnell, Mike Crapo, Tom Cotton, David Perdue, Mike Rounds, Pat Roberts, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kevin Cramer, Lindsey Graham, Thom Tillis, Tim Scott, James E. Risch, Michael B. Enzi, John Cornyn, Roger F. Wicker, John Thune, John Boozman. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. [[Page S7106]] The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the nomination of Taylor B. McNeel, of Mississippi, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) would have voted ``yea.'' Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--36 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Harris Heinrich Inhofe Loeffler McSally Murray Rubio Sanders Schatz Sinema Warren Whitehous The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.