[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Ms. BALDWIN. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session to 
consider Calendar No. 327.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Anne A. 
Witkowsky, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Conflict 
and Stabilization Operations).


                             cloture motion

  Ms. BALDWIN. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. 327, Anne A. Witkowsky, of 
     Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Conflict and 
     Stabilization Operations).
         Robert Menendez, Patrick J. Leahy, Patty Murray, Maria 
           Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Brian Schatz, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Catherine Cortez Masto, Christopher A. Coons, 
           Ron Wyden, Margaret Wood Hassan, Edward J. Markey, 
           Benjamin L. Cardin, Richard J. Durbin, Tina Smith, 
           Elizabeth Warren, Angus S. King, Jr.

  Ms. BALDWIN. Mr. President, I ask that the mandatory quorum call for 
the cloture motion filed today be waived.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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