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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S3260-S3261 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on July 13 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 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. 908, Kate Elizabeth Heinzelman, of New York, to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mazie K. Hirono, Brian Schatz, Tim Kaine, Richard J.

Durbin, Margaret Wood Hassan, Tammy Duckworth, Patrick

J. Leahy, Christopher A. Coons, Jacky Rosen, Tina

Smith, Angus S. King, Jr., Martin Heinrich, Robert P.

Casey, Jr., Alex Padilla, Christopher Murphy, Catherine

Cortez Masto.

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 Kate Elizabeth Heinzelman, of New York, to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).

The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 42, as follows:

YEAS--51

Baldwin Bennet Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden

NAYS--42

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

NOT VOTING--7

Blumenthal Cramer Leahy Lujan Moran Sanders Schumer

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 115

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