Mazie K. Hirono and Brian Schatz were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S1219-S1220 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th 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 nomination of Executive Calendar No. 662, Andrew M. Luger, of Minnesota, to be United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota for the term of four years.
Charles E. Schumer, Gary C. Peters, Edward J. Markey, Ben
Ray Lujan, Martin Heinrich, Tammy Baldwin, Jacky Rosen,
Jeff Merkley, Raphael G. Warnock, Mazie K. Hirono,
Michael F. Bennet, Tammy Duckworth, Angus S. King, Jr.,
Alex Padilla, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Margaret Wood
Hassan, Patrick J. Leahy
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 Andrew M. Luger, of Minnesota, to be United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota for the term of four years, 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 New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 61, nays 36, as follows:
YEAS–61
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–36
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tuberville Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–3
Blunt Shaheen Toomey
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 36.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 47
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