- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: May 19, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
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:
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. 737, Evan Rikhye, of the Virgin
Islands, to be Judge for the District Court of the Virgin
Islands for a term of ten years.
John Thune, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis, John Barrasso, Tim
Sheehy, Joni Ernst, Jon Husted, Katie Boyd Britt, David
McCormick, Mike Rounds, John Boozman, Bill Cassidy,
Rick Scott of Florida, Josh Hawley, Cynthia M. Lummis,
Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Banks). By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.
nomination of Evan Rikhye, of the Virgin Islands, to be Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands for a term of ten years, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
Further, if the present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted “Yea.”
The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50, nays 47, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 128 Executive
YEAS—50
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Wicker
Young
NAYS—47
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—3
Cornyn
Tillis
Tuberville
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 47. The motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.