[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 26 (Friday, February 26, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S820]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Mr. REID. I have a cloture motion at the desk.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The cloture motion having been 
presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the 
motion.
  The 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of 
     Barbara Milano Keenan, of Virginia, to be a United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
         Harry Reid, Herb Kohl, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard J. 
           Durbin, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patty Murray, Mark Begich, 
           Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Mark R. Warner, Russell D. 
           Feingold, Al Franken, Roland W. Burris, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Patrick J. Leahy, Barbara Boxer, Charles E. 
           Schumer, Edward E. Kaufman.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that on Tuesday, 
March 2, after a period of morning business, the Senate proceed to 
executive session to resume consideration of the Keenan nomination; 
that the time until 12:15 p.m. be for debate only on a vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the nomination, with the time equally 
divided and controlled between Senators Leahy and Sessions or their 
designees; that at 12:15 p.m., the Senate proceed to vote on the motion 
to invoke cloture with the mandatory quorum waived.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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