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“CLOTURE MOTION” published by Congressional Record in the Senate section on March 8

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Charles E. Schumer was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S1048 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on March 8 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

CLOTURE MOTION

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 547, Maria L. Pagan, of Puerto Rico, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative

(Geneva Office), with the rank of Ambassador.

Charles E. Schumer, Alex Padilla, Christopher Murphy,

Edward J. Markey, Gary C. Peters, Brian Schatz, Jack

Reed, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper, Sheldon

Whitehouse, Tim Kaine, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher

A. Coons, Margaret Wood Hassan, Patrick J. Leahy,

Debbie Stabenow.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Maria L. Pagan, of Puerto Rico, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Geneva Office), with the rank of Ambassador 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 19, as follows:

YEAS--78

Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young

NAYS--19

Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Tuberville

NOT VOTING--3

Hagerty Inhofe Sanders

(Mr. KING assumed the Chair.)

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 78 and the nays are 19.

The motion is agreed to.

____________________

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 41

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