Christopher Murphy was mentioned in Cloture Motion (Executive Session) on pages S766-S767 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 14 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. 62, Brent Neiman, of Illinois, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury.
Charles E. Schumer, Ron Wyden, Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters,
Tina Smith, Sherrod Brown, Brian Schatz, Ben Ray,
Lujan, Elizabeth Warren, Christopher A. Coons, Martin
Heinrich, Christopher Murphy, Tammy Baldwin, Debbie
Stabenow, Alex Padilla, Margaret Wood Hassan, Michael
F. Bennet.
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 Brent Neiman, of Illinois, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury, 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 California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 52, nays 40, as follows:
YEAS–52
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young
NAYS–40
Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker
NOT VOTING–8
Barrasso Cruz Feinstein Fetterman McConnell Padilla Risch Scott (SC)
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 40.
The motion is agreed to.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 47
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