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Thomas R. Carper was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S2045 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on June 12 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

CLOTURE MOTION

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.

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. 157, Elizabeth Allen, of New York, to be Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.

Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Benjamin L. Cardin,

Mazie K. Hirono, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Margaret Wood

Hassan, Thomas R. Carper, Tammy Baldwin, Sheldon

Whitehouse, Peter Welch, Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith,

Alex Padilla, Debbie Stabenow, Tammy Duckworth, Chris

Van Hollen, Ben Ray Lujan.

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 Elizabeth Allen, of New York, to be Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, shall be brought to a close?

The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.

The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``no.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 29, as follows:

YEAS--66

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

NAYS--29

Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Rubio Schmitt Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker

NOT VOTING--5

Barrasso Booker Braun Hyde-Smith Scott (FL)

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 29.

The motion is agreed to.

The Senator from Minnesota.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 102

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