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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S441 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 16 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 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. 6, Maria Araujo Kahn, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Margaret Wood

Hassan, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Tim

Kaine, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, Richard Blumenthal,

Chris Van Hollen, Martin Heinrich, Jack Reed,

Christopher A. Coons, Alex Padilla, Christopher Murphy,

Sheldon Whitehouse, Benjamin L. Cardin.

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 Maria Araujo Kahn, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second 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 Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from Pennsylvania

(Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 44, as follows:

YEAS--50

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

NAYS--44

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--6

Brown Casey Fetterman Moran Sanders Vance

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 44.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 32

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