Volume 167, No. 134, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 – 2022), was published by the Congressional Record.
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“CLOTURE MOTION” mentioning Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse was published in the Senate section on page S5201 on July 30.
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. 232, Ur Mendoza Jaddou, of California, to be Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jacky Rosen,
Debbie Stabenow, Edward J. Markey, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Tina Smith, Amy Klobuchar, Michael F. Bennet,
Christopher Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Jack Reed,
Richard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden, Catherine Cortez Masto,
Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Gary C. Peters.
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 Ur Mendoza Jaddou, of California, to be Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho
(Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted “nay.”
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 50, nays 41, as follows:
YEAS–50
BaldwinBennetBlumenthalBookerBrownCantwellCardinCarperCaseyCoonsCortez MastoDuckworthDurbinFeinsteinGillibrandHassanHeinrichHickenlooperHironoKaineKellyKingKlobucharLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMenendezMerkleyMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaPetersReedRosenSandersSchatzSchumerShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowTesterVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWyden
NAYS–41
BarrassoBlackburnBluntBoozmanBraunCapitoCassidyCollinsCornynCottonCramerCrapoCruzDainesErnstFischerGrahamGrassleyHagertyHawleyHoevenHyde-SmithKennedyLankfordLeeLummisMcConnellMoranMurkowskiPortmanRomneyScott (FL)Scott (SC)ShelbySullivanThuneTillisToomeyTubervilleWickerYoung
NOT VOTING–9
BurrInhofeJohnsonMarshallPaulRischRoundsRubioSasse
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 50, the nays are 41.
The motion is agreed to.
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