“CLOTURE MOTION” published by Congressional Record in the Senate section on June 16

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Volume 167, No. 105, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 – 2022), was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“CLOTURE MOTION” mentioning Jacky Rosen was published in the Senate section on pages S4561-S4562 on June 16.

Of the 100 senators in 117th Congress, 24 percent were women, and 76 percent were men, according to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Senators’ salaries are historically higher than the median US income.

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 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. 173, Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland.

Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Benjamin L.

Cardin, Chris Van Hollen, Jacky Rosen, John

Hickenlooper, Tammy Baldwin, Richard Blumenthal,

Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Raphael Warnock, Martin

Heinrich, Christopher Murphy, Bernard Sanders, Jeff

Merkley, Patty Murray, Margaret Wood Hassan.

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 Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, 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 Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent.

The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 57, nays 41, as follows:

YEAS–57

BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBrownBurrCantwellCapitoCardinCarperCaseyCollinsCoonsCornynCortez MastoDuckworthDurbinErnstFeinsteinGillibrandGrahamGrassleyHassanHeinrichHickenlooperHironoKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurkowskiMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaReedRomneyRosenSandersSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowTesterVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden

NAYS–41

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NOT VOTING–2

BookerPeters

(Mr. BENNET assumed the Chair.)

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 57, and the nays are 41.

The motion is agreed to.

____________________

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 105



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