Jack Reed was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S499-S500 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 27 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 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. 16, Jamar K. Walker, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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 Jamar K. Walker, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
Further, if present and voting the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd) would have voted “nay” and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voed “nay.”
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 52, nays 39, as follows:
YEAS–52
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–39
Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–9
Barrasso Budd Crapo Feinstein Fetterman Merkley Risch Sanders Tillis
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 39, and the motion is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.
The Senator from Minnesota.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 37
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