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Jeanne Shaheen was mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on pages S251-S252 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 7 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Cloture Motion

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. 3, DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon

Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin,

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

Amy Klobuchar, Jack Reed, 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 DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) is necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows:

YEAS--54

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski

Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden

NAYS--43

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

NOT VOTING--3

Brown Graham Sullivan

(Mr. MENENDEZ assumed the Chair.)

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 54; the nays are 43.

The motion is agreed to.

The Senator from Virginia.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 25

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