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Cloture Motion
Mr. SCHUMER. I send a cloture motion to the desk.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
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. 847, Barbara A. Leaf, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs).
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz,
Martin Heinrich, Alex Padilla, Jacky Rosen, Margaret
Wood Hassan, Dianne Feinstein, Benjamin L. Cardin,
Richard Blumenthal, Angus S. King, Jr., Bernard
Sanders, Christopher Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Sherrod Brown, Michael F. Bennet, Christopher A. Coons.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 83
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