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Tina Smith was mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on page S3801 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Aug. 1 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. 1068, Elizabeth Wilson Hanes, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Charles E. Schumer, Christopher Murphy, Tammy Baldwin,

Tina Smith, Christopher A. Coons, Elizabeth Warren,

Jeanne Shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Alex Padilla, Richard J.

Durbin, Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters, Edward J. Markey,

Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Mazie K.

Hirono.

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 Elizabeth Wilson Hanes, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.

Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the Senator from Illinois

(Mr. Durbin) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 33, as follows:

YEAS--56

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

NAYS--33

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--11

Blunt Burr Cornyn Durbin Hawley Kennedy Leahy Merkley Moran Sasse Shelby

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 56 and the nays are 33.

The motion was agreed to.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The majority leader.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 128

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