Christopher Murphy was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S507-S508 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Feb. 3 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. 673, Reta Jo Lewis, of Georgia, to be President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2025.
Charles E. Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Christopher Murphy,
Jeff Merkley, Jack Reed, Ben Ray Lujan, Christopher A.
Coons, Chris Van Hollen, Benjamin L. Cardin, Amy
Klobuchar, Tammy Baldwin, Tim Kaine, Patrick J. Leahy,
Jeanne Shaheen, Edward J. Markey, Debbie Stabenow,
Martin Heinrich.
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 Reta Jo Lewis, of Georgia, to be President of the Export-
Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2025, 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 New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) would have voted “yea” and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted “nay.”
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 54, nays 39, as follows:
YEAS–54
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden
NAYS–39
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Young
NOT VOTING–7
Burr Cramer Daines Gillibrand Graham Hoeven Lujan
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote the yeas are 54, and the nays are 39.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 22
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