March 15: Congressional Record publishes “CLOTURE MOTION” in the Senate section

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Jeanne Shaheen and Margaret Wood Hassan were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S793 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 15 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 senior assistant 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. 18, Laura Taylor-Kale, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense (New Position).

Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon

Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin,

Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper,

Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. Cardin,

Edward J. Markey, Alex Padilla, Margaret Wood Hassan,

Catherine Cortez Masto.

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 Laura Taylor-Kale, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), and the Senator from Indiana

(Mr. Young).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted “yea.”

The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 68, nays 26, as follows:

YEAS–68

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden

NAYS–26

Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Crapo Daines Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance

NOT VOTING–6

Barrasso Cruz Feinstein Fetterman McConnell Young

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 26.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 48

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