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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on pages S3509-S3510 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on July 20 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Cloture Motion

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 989, Gregory Brian Williams, of Delaware, to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Robert P. Casey,

Jr., Sherrod Brown, Tammy Baldwin, Tina Smith, Jeanne

Shaheen, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren, Catherine

Cortez Masto, Benjamin L. Cardin, Christopher Murphy,

Maria Cantwell, Christopher A. Coons, Mazie K. Hirono,

Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters, Tammy Duckworth.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Gregory Brian Williams, of Delaware, to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, 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 Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Massachusetts

(Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows:

YEAS--52

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

NAYS--43

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

NOT VOTING--5

Kennedy Leahy Markey Warren Whitehouse

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 52, the nays are 43.

The motion is agreed to.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.

(The remarks of Mr. Cardin pertaining to the introduction of S. Res. 713 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.

The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 120

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