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Benjamin L. Cardin and Chris Van Hollen were mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on page S2779 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on June 6 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. 477, Alex Wagner, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.

Charles E. Schumer, Tina Smith, Margaret Wood Hassan,

Mark Kelly, Richard J. Durbin, Benjamin L. Cardin,

Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow, Angus S. King, Jr.,

Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Gary C.

Peters, Chris Van Hollen, Edward J. Markey, Jeanne

Shaheen, Jack Reed.

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 Alex Wagner, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, 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 Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``yea.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 17, as follows:

YEAS--69

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden

NAYS--17

Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Scott (FL)

NOT VOTING--14

Cardin Hoeven Kennedy Lankford Merkley Murkowski Ossoff Padilla Rubio Schumer Sullivan Toomey Warnock Young

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 17.

The motion is agreed to.

The Senator from Colorado.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 96

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