Richard Blumenthal was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S624-S625 covering the 1st Session of the 118th Congress published on March 2 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. 40, Gordon P. Gallagher, of Colorado, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado.
Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Jeff Merkley,
Jeanne Shaheen, Elizabeth Warren, Mazie K. Hirono,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher A.
Coons, Jack Reed, Gary C. Peters, Angus S. King, Jr.,
Alex Padilla, 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 Gordon P. Gallagher, of Colorado, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Tuberville).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted “yea.”
The yeas and nays resulted–yeas 50, nays 41, as follows:
YEAS–50
Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Wyden
NAYS–41
Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Vance Wicker Young
NOT VOTING–9
Crapo Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Merkley Paul Tillis Tuberville Whitehouse
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 41.
The motion is agreed to.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 40
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