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Margaret Wood Hassan was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S1238-S1239 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on March 17 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. 677, Alison J. Nathan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.

Charles E. Schumer, Brian Schatz, Jack Reed, Angus S.

King, Jr., Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, Raphael

G. Warnock, Jacky Rosen, Tim Kaine, Patty Murray,

Margaret Wood Hassan, Tammy Duckworth, Alex Padilla,

Tammy Baldwin, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher A. Coons,

Patrick J. Leahy.

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 Alison J. Nathan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, 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 West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).

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

YEAS--51

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden

NAYS--44

Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--5

Burr Manchin Scott (SC) Shaheen Tillis

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 51 the nays 44.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 48

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