Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 17, 2020
The Senate Judiciary Committee held an executive business meeting to consider pending
nominations on September 17, 2020.

Agenda
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I. Nominees
J. Philip Calabrese, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio

REPORTED: ROLL CALL VOTE
12-10
Aye: Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Hawley, Tillis, Ernst, Crapo,
Kennedy (Proxy), Blackburn
Nay: Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar (Proxy), Coons (Proxy),
Blumenthal, Hirono (Proxy), Booker, Harris (Proxy)
Aileen Mercedes Cannon, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of
Florida

REPORTED: ROLL CALL VOTE
16-6
Aye: Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Hawley, Tillis, Ernst, Crapo,
Kennedy (Proxy), Blackburn, Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Coons (Proxy),
Nay:, Whitehouse, Klobuchar (Proxy), Blumenthal, Hirono (Proxy), Booker, Harris
(Proxy)
Toby Crouse, to be United States District Judge for the District of Kansas

REPORTED: ROLL CALL VOTE
12-10
Aye: Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Hawley, Tillis, Ernst, Crapo,
Kennedy (Proxy), Blackburn
Nay: Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar (Proxy), Coons (Proxy),
Blumenthal, Hirono (Proxy), Booker, Harris (Proxy)
James Ray Knepp II, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio

REPORTED: ROLL CALL VOTE
17-5
Aye: Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Hawley, Tillis, Ernst, Crapo,
Kennedy (Proxy), Blackburn, Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Coons (Proxy)

 Nay: Klobuchar (Proxy), Blumenthal, Hirono (Proxy), Booker, Harris (Proxy)
Michael Jay Newman, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of
Ohio

REPORTED: ROLL CALL VOTE
17-5
Aye: Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Hawley, Tillis, Ernst, Crapo,
Kennedy (Proxy), Blackburn, Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Coons (Proxy)
Nay: Klobuchar (Proxy), Blumenthal, Hirono (Proxy), Booker, Harris (Proxy)
Anna Maria Ruzinski, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

REPORTED: VOICE VOTE
Gregory Scott Tabor, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas

REPORTED: VOICE VOTE