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“Cloture Motion (Executive Session)” mentioning Tina Smith was published in the Senate section on page S1727 on March 24.
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The publication is reproduced in full below:
Cloture Motion
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 40, Rachel Leland Levine, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jon
Tester, Richard Blumenthal, Michael F. Bennet, Sheldon
Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Jeanne Shaheen, Debbie
Stabenow, Thomas R. Carper, Margaret Wood Hassan,
Elizabeth Warren, Alex Padilla, Tina Smith, Tim Kaine,
Christopher A. Coons.
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