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Patty Murray was mentioned in CLOTURE MOTION on page S4839 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Sept. 20 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 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 Calendar No. 2, Treaty Document No. 117-1, amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the ``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

(the ``Kigali Amendment'') and a resolution of advice and consent to ratification with 1 declaration.

Charles E. Schumer, Robert Menendez, Tammy Baldwin,

Christopher Murphy, Mazie K. Hirono, Martin Heinrich,

Christopher A. Coons, Benjamin L. Cardin, Margaret Wood

Hassan, Sheldon Whitehouse, Alex Padilla, Brian Schatz,

Patty Murray, Jacky Rosen, Edward J. Markey, Richard

Blumenthal, Angus S. King, Jr., Thomas R. Carper.

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 amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the ``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (the ``Kigali Amendment'') and a resolution of advice and consent to ratification with 1 declaration, 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.

Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from Vermont

(Mr. Leahy) are necessarily absent.

Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).

The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 30, as follows:

YEAS--64

Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young

NAYS--30

Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville

NOT VOTING--6

Baldwin Cramer Duckworth Leahy Risch Wicker

The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 30.

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. 151

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