Sheldon Whitehouse was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S2058 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on June 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. 25, Hernan D. Vera, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Richard
Blumenthal, Christopher A. Coons, Benjamin L. Cardin,
Tina Smith, Christopher Murphy, Mazie K. Hirono, Tammy
Baldwin, Margaret Wood Hassan, John W. Hickenlooper,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Catherine Cortez Masto, Brian
Schatz, Gary C. Peters, Alex Padilla, Michael F.
Bennet.
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 Hernan D. Vera, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, 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. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 51, nays 48, as follows:
YEAS–51
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–48
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–1
Tuberville
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). The yeas are 51, the nays are 48.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 103
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