Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S1993 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on June 7 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. 81, Dilawar Syed, of California, to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Charles E. Schumer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Sherrod Brown,
Margaret Wood Hassan, Tammy Baldwin, Alex Padilla,
Debbie Stabenow, Tina Smith, Jeff Merkley, Gary C.
Peters, Jeanne Shaheen, Mazie K. Hirono, Tim Kaine,
Brian Schatz, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal,
Jack Reed.
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 Dilawar Syed, of California, to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote?
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 54, nays 44, as follows:
YEAS–54
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–44
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–2
Murray Sanders
The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54 and the nays are 44.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 99
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