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Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S6665 covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress published on Sept. 23 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. 334, Jessica Lewis, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs).

Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Patrick J. Leahy,

Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Brian

Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, Catherine Cortez Masto,

Christopher A. Coons, Ron Wyden, Margaret Wood Hassan,

Edward J. Markey, Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard J.

Durbin, Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Angus S. King,

Jr.

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 Jessica Lewis, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs), shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho

(Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 21, as follows:

YEAS--62

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NAYS--21

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NOT VOTING--17

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The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 62, the nays are 21.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 165

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