[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 216 (Wednesday, December 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9204-S9205]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, 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 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 nomination 
     of Executive Calendar No. 320, Rufus Gifford, of 
     Massachusetts, to be Chief of Protocol, and to have the rank 
     of Ambassador during his tenure of service.
         Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Brian Schatz, 
           Martin Heinrich, Alex Padilla, Jacky Rosen, Margaret 
           Wood Hassan, Dianne Feinstein, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Angus S. King, Jr., Jon Ossoff, 
           Bernard Sanders, Christopher Murphy, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Christopher A. Coons.

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