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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S4458 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Sept. 7 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. 736, Andre B. Mathis, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.

Charles E. Schumer, Mazie K. Hirono, Martin Heinrich, Tim

Kaine, Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Ben Ray Lujan,

Christopher A. Coons, Alex Padilla, Sheldon Whitehouse,

Sherrod Brown, Debbie Stabenow, Christopher Murphy,

Patrick J. Leahy, John W. Hickenlooper, Tammy Baldwin,

Angus S. King, Jr.

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 Andre B. Mathis, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, 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 New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 45, as follows:

YEAS--48

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

NAYS--45

Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham 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 Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--7

Burr Crapo Menendez Murkowski Ossoff Rosen Sullivan

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 45.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 143

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