[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 59 (Monday, April 8, 2024)] [Senate] [Page S2637] 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 Executive Calendar No. 534, Susan M. Bazis, of Nebraska, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska. Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Peter Welch, Laphonza Butler, Richard Blumenthal, Alex Padilla, Tim Kaine, Christopher A. Coons, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Margaret Wood Hassan, Sheldon Whitehouse, Gary C. Peters, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jeanne Shaheen, Tammy Duckworth, Tina Smith, Chris Van Hollen. 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 Susan M. Bazis, of Nebraska, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent. Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy Klobuchar Lee Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cotton Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Lankford Marshall Mullin Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--14 Brown Cassidy Cramer Ernst Fetterman Hassan King Lujan Murphy Murray Romney Rubio Vance Welch The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 18. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana.