[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8253]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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 NOMINATION OF DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR., TO BE SOLICITOR GENERAL OF THE 
                             UNITED STATES

  Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 118, and I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The 
motion is agreed to.
  The clerk will report the nomination.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., of the 
District of Columbia, to be Solicitor General of the United States.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The bill 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 
     Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Solicitor General of the United States.
         Patrick J. Leahy, Kent Conrad, John F. Kerry, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeff 
           Bingaman, Barbara Boxer, Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden, 
           Robert Menendez, Jeanne Shaheen, Bernard Sanders, Frank 
           R. Lautenberg, Jack Reed, Patty Murray, Richard J. 
           Durbin

  Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that on Monday, 
June 6, 2011, at 4:30 p.m., the Senate proceed to executive session to 
consider Calendar No. 118; that there be 1 hour for debate equally 
divided in the usual form prior to the cloture vote; further, that the 
mandatory quorum under rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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