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Harry Reid: “I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). The cloture motion having been presented…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2013
I send a cloture motion to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. 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, hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit. Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Barbara Boxer, Benjamin L. Cardin, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Bill Nelson, Barbara A. Mikulski, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse, Robert Menendez, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Richard Blumenthal, Max Baucus, Sherrod Brown, Dianne Feinstein
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Mar 4, 2013

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