[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18954]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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   NOMINATION OF RICHARD CORDRAY TO BE DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF CONSUMER 
                          FINANCIAL PROTECTION


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I move to proceed to executive session to 
consider Calendar No. 413, and I send a cloture motion to the desk. In 
fact, it is 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 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 Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of 
     Consumer Financial Protection:
         Harry Reid, Joseph I. Lieberman, Jeff Bingaman, Patty 
           Murray, Patrick J. Leahy, Kent Conrad, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Jack Reed, Benjamin L. Cardin, Barbara 
           Boxer, Al Franken, Max Baucus, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Robert Menendez, Jon Tester, Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, 
           Tim Johnson.

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory 
quorum under rule XXII be waived.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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