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“CLOTURE MOTION” mentioning Richard Blumenthal was published in the Senate section on pages S1691-S1692 on March 23.
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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, Vivek Hallegere Murthy, of Florida, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a term of four years.
Charles E. Schumer, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin,
Christopher A. Coons, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jon Tester,
Richard Blumenthal, Michael F. Bennet, Sheldon
Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Jeanne Shaheen, Debbie
Stabenow, Thomas R. Carper, Margaret Wood Hassan,
Elizabeth Warren, Patty Murray, Alex Padilla, Tina
Smith, Tim Kaine.
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 Vivek Hallegere Murthy, of Florida, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a term of four years, 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.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 43, as follows:
YEAS--57
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NAYS--43
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The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 43.
The motion is agreed to.
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