Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S2093-S2094 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on June 14 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 bill 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. 29, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Alex Padilla, Tim
Kaine, Margaret Wood Hassan, Ben Ray Lujan, Raphael G.
Warnock, Tammy Duckworth, Jack Reed, John W.
Hickenlooper, Catherine Cortez Masto, Tammy Baldwin,
Brian Schatz, Christopher Murphy, Tina Smith, Debbie
Stabenow, 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 nomination of Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas Mr. (Cotton), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 50, nays 47, as follows:
YEAS–50
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 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–47
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–3
Cotton Schmitt Scott (SC)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 47.
The motion was agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 104
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