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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S2659 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on May 24 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 senior assistant executive 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. 801, Nina Morrison, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

Charles E. Schumer, Brian Schatz, Alex Padilla, Benjamin

L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Tammy

Duckworth, Angus S. King, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Chris

Van Hollen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Gary C. Peters,

Elizabeth Warren, Jacky Rosen, Ben Ray Lujan, Cory A.

Booker, Christopher A. Coons.

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 Nina Morrison, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina

(Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina

(Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 41, as follows:

YEAS--50

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden

NAYS--41

Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--9

Boozman Cornyn Cruz Merkley Murkowski Rubio Tillis Toomey Van Hollen

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, nays are 41.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 90

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