Brian Schatz was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S3197-S3198 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on July 11 in the Congressional Record.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
CLOTURE MOTION
Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
The bill 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. 599, Ashish S. Vazirani, of Maryland, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.
Charles E. Schumer, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Richard Blumenthal, Richard J. Durbin, Catherine Cortez
Masto, Jacky Rosen, Margaret Wood Hassan, Mark Kelly,
Benjamin L. Cardin, Brian Schatz, Debbie Stabenow,
Angus S. King, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Martin Heinrich,
Tim Kaine, Gary C. Peters, Chris Van Hollen.
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 Ashish S. Vazirani, of Maryland, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) would have voted “yea.”
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 67, nays 20, as follows:
YEAS–67
Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Wicker Wyden Young
NAYS–20
Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Thune Tuberville
NOT VOTING–13
Blumenthal Cantwell Cramer Kennedy Leahy Lujan Murkowski Ossoff Risch Sasse Schumer Sinema Whitehouse
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 20.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 113
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