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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on page S402 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Jan. 31 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Cloture Motion

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. 655, Bridget Meehan Brennan, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio.

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 Bridget Meehan Brennan, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, 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 New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alaska

(Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 30, as follows:

YEAS--61

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young

NAYS--30

Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Toomey Tuberville

NOT VOTING--9

Barrasso Kennedy Lujan Moran Ossoff Romney Rubio Sullivan Tillis

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 30.

The motion is agreed to.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 19

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