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Jeanne Shaheen and Margaret Wood Hassan were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S2992 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on June 16 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. 919, Mary T. Boyle, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for a term of seven years from October 27, 2018.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A.

Coons, Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Catherine

Cortez Masto, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jack Reed, Jacky

Rosen, Benjamin L. Cardin, Amy Klobuchar, Ron Wyden,

Debbie Stabenow, Jeff Merkley, Michael F. Bennet,

Christopher Murphy, Edward J. Markey.

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 Mary T. Boyle, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for a term of seven years from October 27, 2018, 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 Georgia (Mr. Warnock) is necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-

Smith), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 47, as follows:

YEAS--49

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

NAYS--47

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

NOT VOTING--4

Daines Hyde-Smith Warnock Wicker

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 47.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 103

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