Catherine Cortez Masto was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S345-S346 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 13 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 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. 9, Gina R. Mendez-Miro, of Puerto Rico, to be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon
Whitehouse, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin,
Ben Ray Lujan, Tammy Duckworth, John W. Hickenlooper,
Amy Klobuchar, Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L.
Cardin, Edward J. Markey, Alex Padilla, Margaret Wood
Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto.
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 Gina R. Mendez-Miro, of Puerto Rico, to be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, 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 Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso).
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 52, nays 44, as follows:
YEAS–52
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden
NAYS–44
Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Young
NOT VOTING–4
Barrasso Fetterman Heinrich Padilla
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The yeas are 52, the nays are 44.
The motion is agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 29
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