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Congressional Record publishes “CLOTURE MOTION” in the Senate section on Dec. 17

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Gary C. Peters and Debbie Stabenow were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S9299 covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress published on Dec. 17 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. 635, Holly A. Thomas, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.

Charles E. Schumer, Alex Padilla, Catherine Cortez Masto,

Patty Murray, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tammy Baldwin,

Patrick J. Leahy, Chris Van Hollen, Angus S. King, Jr.,

Tim Kaine, Richard J. Durbin, Gary C. Peters, Tina

Smith, Jack Reed, Martin Heinrich, Benjamin L. Cardin,

Richard Blumenthal.

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 Holly A. Thomas, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The bill clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Mississippi

(Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 42, nays 25, as follows:

YEAS--42

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NAYS--25

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NOT VOTING--33

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The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 42, the nays are 25.

The motion is agreed to.

____________________

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 218

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