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On the recordDecember 16, 2013
I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The bill 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, hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Harry Reid, Tim Johnson (SD), Barbara Boxer, Mark Begich, Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tom Udall (NM), Debbie Stabenow, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bernard Sanders, Mazie K. Hirono, Christopher A. Coons, Jon Tester, Brian Schatz, Martin Heinrich, Claire McCaskill, Heidi Heitkamp, Kirsten E. Gillibrand. ____________________
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Harry Reid
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Dec 16, 2013

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