Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S508 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Feb. 3 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. 654, Leonard Philip Stark, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard
Blumenthal, Gary C. Peters, Robert P. Casey, Jr.,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Martin Henrich, Sherrod Brown,
Patty Murray, Tammy Duckworth, Tim Kaine, Elizabeth
Warren, Mazie K. Hirono, Alex Padilla, Tina Smith,
Christopher A. Coons, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Tester.
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 Leonard Philip Stark, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, 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 New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from South Dakota
(Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted “nay.”
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 54, nays 33, as follows:
YEAS–54
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–33
Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–13
Burr Cramer Daines Gillibrand Graham Hoeven Kennedy King Lujan Rounds Sanders Toomey Tuberville
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 33.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 22
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