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Christopher A. Coons was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S1153 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on April 18 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. 57, Amy Lefkowitz Solomon, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez

Masto, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Margaret Wood

Hassan, Raphael G. Warnock, Gary C. Peters, Jack Reed,

Christopher A. Coons, Brian Schatz, Tina Smith, Ben Ray

Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Martin Heinrich, Christopher

Murphy, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla.

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 Amy Lefkowitz Solomon, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 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 New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) are necessarily absent.

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 40, as follows:

YEAS--58

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

NAYS--40

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

NOT VOTING--2

Feinstein Gillibrand

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). The yeas are 58, the nays are 40.

The motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 64

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