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Jeanne Shaheen and Margaret Wood Hassan were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S377 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 14 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. 15, Adrienne C. Nelson, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for the District of Oregon.

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, Brian Schatz, Edward J. Markey,

Benjamin L. Cardin, 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 Adrienne C. Nelson, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows:

YEAS--53

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

NAYS--44

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 Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--3

Casey Lee Tillis

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 44.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 30

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