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Tammy Duckworth was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on pages S3664-S3665 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on July 26 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

CLOTURE MOTION

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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 motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 4346, a bill making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes, with amendment No. 5135.

Charles E. Schumer, Maria Cantwell, Ben Ray Lujan, Jon

Tester, Richard Blumenthal, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Tina

Smith, John W. Hickenlooper, Mazie K. Hirono, Mark R.

Warner, Debbie Stabenow, Jack Reed, Tammy Baldwin,

Jacky Rosen, Raphael G. Warnock, Tammy Duckworth,

Christopher Murphy.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.

The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 4346, a bill making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes, with amendment No. 5135, offered by the Senator from New York [Mr. Schumer], 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 Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley).

Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.''

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 32, as follows:

YEAS--64

Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young

NAYS--32

Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville

NOT VOTING--4

Hawley Leahy Manchin Murkowski

(Mr. PADILLA assumed the Chair.)

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 32.

Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 124

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