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“CLOTURE MOTION” published by the Congressional Record in the Senate section on Feb. 15

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Amy Klobuchar was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S419 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 15 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. 1, Lester Martinez-Lopez, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense.

Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon

Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin,

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

Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Brian Schatz, 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 Lester Martinez-Lopez, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, 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 Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 33, as follows:

YEAS--64

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

NAYS--33

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance

NOT VOTING--3

Casey Cramer Fetterman

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 33.

The motion is agreed to.

____________________

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 31

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