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“CLOTURE MOTION” mentioning Mazie K. Hirono and Brian Schatz was published in the Senate section on page S3981 on June 8.
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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 motion to proceed to Calendar No. 46, H.R. 7, a bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.
Charles E. Schumer, Patty Murray, Tammy Duckworth, Angus
S. King, Jr., Elizabeth Warren, Jack Reed, Richard J.
Durbin, Maria Cantwell, Bernard Sanders, John
Hickenlooper, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tina Smith, Amy
Klobuchar, Thomas R. Carper, Mazie K. Hirono, Richard
Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse.
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 motion to proceed to H.R. 7, a bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes, 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 York (Mrs. Gillibrand) is necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows:
YEAS--49
BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBookerBrownCantwellCardinCarperCaseyCoonsCortez MastoDuckworthDurbinFeinsteinHassanHeinrichHickenlooperHironoKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaPetersReedRosenSandersSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowTesterVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden
NAYS--50
BarrassoBlackburnBluntBoozmanBraunBurrCapitoCassidyCollinsCornynCottonCramerCrapoCruzDainesErnstFischerGrahamGrassleyHagertyHawleyHoevenHyde-SmithInhofeJohnsonKennedyLankfordLeeLummisMarshallMcConnellMoranMurkowskiPaulPortmanRischRomneyRoundsRubioSasseScott (FL)Scott (SC)ShelbySullivanThuneTillisToomeyTubervilleWickerYoung
NOT VOTING--1
Gillibrand
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 50.
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.
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