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Tina Smith was mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on page S653 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 6 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. 31, Robert Stewart Ballou, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez

Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Margaret Wood

Hassan, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed,

Christopher A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Ben Ray

Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Martin Heinrich, Christopher

Murphy, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla.

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 Robert Stewart Ballou, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Western 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 legislative clerk called the roll.

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

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 35, as follows:

YEAS--59

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

NAYS--35

Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--6

Barrasso Feinstein Fetterman Risch Sanders Sullivan

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 35.

The motion is agreed to.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 42

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