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55 Senators vote to proceed to Gorsuch Nomination (including 4 Democrats)
Senate.gov ^ | April 4, 2017, 02:16 PM

Posted on 04/04/2017 1:41:23 PM PDT by 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)

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Isakson (R-GA)


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To: Slyfox
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

21 posted on 04/04/2017 2:08:12 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Dave346

Surprised to see Murkowski voting yes


22 posted on 04/04/2017 2:09:07 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Slyfox

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


23 posted on 04/04/2017 2:24:09 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Thanks.


24 posted on 04/04/2017 2:25:41 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: deport
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.

25 posted on 04/04/2017 2:28:01 PM PDT by CMAC51
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To: jonrick46

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.


26 posted on 04/04/2017 2:33:49 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: TankerKC

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.


27 posted on 04/04/2017 2:36:00 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Dave346

28 posted on 04/04/2017 2:36:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: dsc

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.


29 posted on 04/04/2017 2:37:48 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: deport

thank you for the answer


30 posted on 04/04/2017 2:50:49 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: blueyon
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.
31 posted on 04/04/2017 3:14:40 PM PDT by deport
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To: jonrick46

my state too: Feinstein and Harris.


32 posted on 04/04/2017 3:48:47 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: Dave346
Senator Claire McCaskill (Democrat - Missouri) who is running for reelection in 2018 voted

NO

33 posted on 04/04/2017 4:28:42 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: Dave346

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!


34 posted on 04/04/2017 5:09:32 PM PDT by mikrofon ( USSC Bump)
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To: mikrofon

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


35 posted on 04/04/2017 5:31:13 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: mrs9x

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


36 posted on 04/04/2017 5:46:20 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: JediJones

“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.


37 posted on 04/04/2017 6:25:18 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Slyfox

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


38 posted on 04/04/2017 8:24:58 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: JediJones

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


39 posted on 04/04/2017 9:57:43 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: arrogantsob

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.


40 posted on 04/04/2017 10:57:29 PM PDT by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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