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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S815 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 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 motion to proceed to Calendar No. 25, S. 316, a bill to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

Charles E. Schumer, Tim Kaine, Robert Menendez, Amy

Klobuchar, Ron Wyden, Christopher Murphy, Benjamin L.

Cardin, Jack Reed, Mazie K. Hirono, Jeanne Shaheen,

Christopher A. Coons, Richard J. Durbin, Cory A.

Booker, Mark R. Warner, Jeff Merkley, Richard

Blumenthal, Margaret Wood Hassan.

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 motion to proceed to S. 316, a bill to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq, 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 California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 27, as follows:

YEAS--68

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Braun Brown Budd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young

NAYS--27

Blackburn Boozman Britt Capito Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hyde-Smith Kennedy Lankford Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker

NOT VOTING--5

Barrasso Cruz Feinstein Fetterman McConnell

(Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.)

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 27.

Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 49

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