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Dec. 7: Congressional Record publishes “CLOTURE MOTION” in the Senate section

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Alex Padilla was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S7017-S7018 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Dec. 7 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

CLOTURE MOTION

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.

The senior assistant 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. 1187, Kai N. Scott, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tina

Smith, Michael F. Bennet, Christopher A. Coons,

Margaret Wood Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tim

Kaine, Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, Kirsten E.

Gillibrand, Angus S. King, Jr., Patty Murray, Robert P.

Casey, Jr., Martin Heinrich, Jack Reed.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 Kai N. Scott, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 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 Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows:

YEAS--52

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden

NAYS--42

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young

NOT VOTING--6

Cruz Hickenlooper Johnson Kaine Warner Warnock

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 42.

The motion is agreed to.

____________________

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 190

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