Richard Blumenthal and Christopher Murphy were mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S556 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 1 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. 39, James Edward Simmons, Jr., of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jeff Merkley,
Jeanne Shaheen, Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse,
Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A. Coons, Jack Reed,
Alex Padilla, Gary C. Peters, Angus S. King, Jr., Mazie
K. Hirono, Tim Kaine, Brian Schatz, Cory A. Booker.
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 James Edward Simmons, Jr., of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo).
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 51, nays 45, as follows:
YEAS–51
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–45
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer 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 Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–4
Crapo Feinstein Fetterman Merkley
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 45.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 39
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