“CLOTURE MOTION” published by Congressional Record in the Senate section on March 8

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Margaret Wood Hassan was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S680 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 8 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

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. 61, Daniel I. Werfel, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the term expiring November 12, 2027.

Charles E. Schumer, Ron Wyden, Catherine Cortez Masto,

Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown,

Margaret Wood Hassan, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C.

Peters, Jack Reed, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Ben Ray

Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Christopher A. Coons, Martin

Heinrich, Christopher Murphy, Tammy Baldwin.

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 Daniel I. Werfel, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the term expiring November 12, 2027, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The bill clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from California

(Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennslyania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.

The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 51, nays 44, as follows:

YEAS–51

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young

NAYS–44

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker

NOT VOTING–5

Cardin Carper Feinstein Fetterman Van Hollen

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 44.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 44

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