Christopher Murphy was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S412 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on Feb. 15 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. 11, Daniel J. Calabretta, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jack Reed, Robert
P. Casey, Jr., Mark Kelly, Patty Murray, Tim Kaine,
Jeff Merkley, Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren,
Tammy Baldwin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen, John
W. Hickenlooper, Christopher Murphy, Brian Schatz,
Debbie Stabenow, Alex Padilla.
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 Daniel J. Calabretta, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 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 bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 52, nays 46, as follows:
YEAS–52
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden
NAYS–46
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–2
Cardin Casey
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). The yeas are 52, the nays are 46.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 31
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