55 Senators vote to proceed to Gorsuch Nomination (including 4 Democrats)

Senate.gov ^ | April 4, 2017, 02:16 PM

[Dave346]

Question: On the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Neil Gorsuch ) Vote Number: 104 Vote Date: April 4, 2017, 02:16 PM Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Motion to Proceed Agreed to Nomination Number: PN55 Nomination Description: Neil M. Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Vote Counts: YEAs 55 NAYs 44 Not Voting 1

*Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

YEAs ---55

Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennet (D-CO) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Capito (R-WV) Cassidy (R-LA) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Cotton (R-AR) Crapo (R-ID) Cruz (R-TX) Daines (R-MT) Donnelly (D-IN) Enzi (R-WY) Ernst (R-IA) Fischer (R-NE) Flake (R-AZ) Gardner (R-CO) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Heitkamp (D-ND) Heller (R-NV) Hoeven (R-ND) Inhofe (R-OK) Johnson (R-WI) Kennedy (R-LA) Lankford (R-OK) Lee (R-UT) Manchin (D-WV) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK) Paul (R-KY) Perdue (R-GA) Portman (R-OH) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rounds (R-SD) Rubio (R-FL) Sasse (R-NE) Scott (R-SC) Shelby (R-AL) Strange (R-AL) Sullivan (R-AK) Thune (R-SD) Tillis (R-NC) Toomey (R-PA) Wicker (R-MS) Young (R-IN)

NAYs ---44

Baldwin (D-WI) Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Coons (D-DE) Cortez Masto (D-NV) Duckworth (D-IL) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) Harris (D-CA) Hassan (D-NH) Heinrich (D-NM) Hirono (D-HI) Kaine (D-VA) King (I-ME) Klobuchar (D-MN) Leahy (D-VT) Markey (D-MA) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Peters (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-NM) Van Hollen (D-MD) Warner (D-VA) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 1

Isakson (R-GA)

[hattend]

From his twitter feed

Johnny Isakson‏Verified account
@SenatorIsakson

It's time to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch. Op-ed w/ @sendavidperdue http://www.macon.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article142461784.html … via @telegraphga

[hattend]

Surprised to see Murkowski voting yes

[Dave346]

Isakson is recovering from back surgery. Assuming he returns it would be 56 votes in favor.

[Slyfox]

Thanks.

[CMAC51]

This only moves the nomination to consideration. It still takes 60 to confirm as I understand the process.

This is a vote to end debate and move to the actual approval vote where only 51 votes are required to pass.

[JediJones]

Hewitt said this morning the libs offered the GOP a deal, they’ll confirm Gorsuch if the Repubs guarantee they WON’T go nuclear on Trump’s NEXT nominee.

Which just tells me they know Gorsuch is the most liberal judge any Republican would ever nominate. And only confirms the obvious that all their opposition to Trump now is calculated posturing to please their radical left constituency and donors.

[JediJones]

The GOP loses NOTHING by going nuclear because there will ALWAYS be the McCains and Grahams and so on to confirm whatever far left nominee the Dems put up. But there will NEVER be crossover Dems to do the same in our direction. The nuclear option simply evens the playing field.

[SaveFerris]

[JediJones]

They’re going to go nuclear because the McConnell bunch knows Gorsuch is a liberal. If he was a Bork or Scalia-like judge, they would throw in the towel, say their hands are tied and ask Trump to nominate a “consensus” candidate. There is nothing but kabuki theater going on with this process now.

[blueyon]

thank you for the answer

[deport]

When all this posturing and maneuvering is completed the confirmation will come
on Friday with a 51 vote majority or better. We just have to get thru the process.

[georgiegirl]

my state too: Feinstein and Harris.

[TYVets]

Senator Claire McCaskill (Democrat - Missouri) who is running for reelection in 2018 voted

NO

[mikrofon]

I don’t understand what’s so sacrosanct about the super majority having to be 60% ; theoretically, why couldn’t it be another fraction, say 5/9 or 56 votes to stop cloture (the majority required in a Supreme Court decision BTW)… Or for that matter, any other number that the Senate powers that be want to make it, if you want to keep such a tradition?

Just go to what the Constitution proscribes and be done with it!

[Dave346]

The cloture rule in the Senate was set at 2/3rds in 1917, then reduced to 3/5ths in 1975. Of course there is nothing special about these fractions - they can be changed again by the majority at any time.

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm

[Kickass Conservative]

Well, the Republicans did utilize the Biden Rule when they didn’t let Obama put another Commie on the Court last year.

He already got away with putting the unqualified Wise Latina and that other Guy on the Court. Two disasters.

Both were ridiculous choices but I don’t remember the Republicans threatening to Filibuster either one.

All I remember is good old Orin Hatch saying the President deserves to get his Nominee. He and the former PA Senator Snarlin’ Arlen were always pushing that crappola.

Might as well finish pissing off the Democrats. They hate us anyway. LOL

[dsc]

“They’re going to go nuclear because the McConnell bunch knows Gorsuch is a liberal.”

I don’t mean to be contrary, but I very much hope that you are wrong.

[Jane Long]

Isakson was just on the Hill, for a vote, a few days ago.

[arrogantsob]

Total crap from another defeatist. Don’t you get tired of it?

[Luircin]

From one of the most rabid never-Trump posters on the board?

That isn’t defeatist talk from him; he WANTS Trump and America to lose so that he gets the chance to say he told us so.