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Volume 167, No. 17, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 - 2022), was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“CLOTURE MOTION” mentioning Thomas R. Carper was published in the Senate section on pages S192-S193 on Jan. 28.

Of the 100 senators in 117th Congress, 24 percent were women, and 76 percent were men, according to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Senators' salaries are historically higher than the median US income.

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 bill 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, hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.

Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Brian Schatz, Robert

Menendez, Thomas R. Carper, Sheldon Whitehouse,

Benjamin L. Cardin, Tina Smith, Sherrod Brown, Patrick

J. Leahy, Cory A. Booker, Catherine Cortez Masto,

Richard J. Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Dianne Feinstein,

Jack Reed, Christopher Murphy, Martin Heinrich.

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 Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security, 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 Virginia (Mr. Warner) is necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows:

YEAS--55

BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBookerBrownCantwellCapitoCardinCarperCaseyCollinsCoonsCortez MastoDuckworthDurbinFeinsteinGillibrandHassanHeinrichHickenlooperHironoKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurkowskiMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaPetersPortmanReedRomneyRosenSandersSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowSullivanTesterVan HollenWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden

NAYS--42

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NOT VOTING--3

CramerGrahamWarne

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 42.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 17