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Volume 167, No. 94, 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 Christopher A. Coons was published in the Senate section on page S3927 on May 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 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 motion to proceed to Calendar No. 60, H.R. 3233, an act to establish the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex, and for other purposes.

Charles E. Schumer, Jacky Rosen, Patrick J. Leahy, Brian

Schatz, Richard J. Durbin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert

P. Casey, Jr., Christopher A. Coons, Gary C. Peters,

Angus S. King, Jr., Sheldon Whitehouse, Christopher

Murphy, Chris Van Hollen, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy

Duckworth, Tina Smith, Ben Ray Lujan.

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 motion to proceed to H.R. 3233, an act to establish the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex, and for other purposes, 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 Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina

(Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania

(Mr. Toomey).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 35, as follows:

YEAS--54

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NAYS--35

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NOT VOTING--11

BlackburnBluntBraunBurrInhofeMurrayRischRoundsShelbySinemaToome

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 35.

Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

The motion was rejected.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 94