[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16216]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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  NOMINATION OF MELVIN L. WATT TO BE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL HOUSING 
                             FINANCE AGENCY

  Mr. REID. Madam President, with your permission I now move to proceed 
to executive session to consider Calendar No. 209.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Melvin L. Watt, of North 
Carolina, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the clerk will report the motion.
  The assistant 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 
     Melvin L. Watt, of North Carolina, to be Director of the 
     Federal Housing Finance Agency.
         Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Mark Begich, Patrick J. Leahy, 
           Christopher A. Coons, Martin Heinrich, Patty Murray, 
           Bernard Sanders, Jeanne Shaheen, Benjamin L. Cardin, Al 
           Franken, Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Thomas 
           R. Carper, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bill Nelson, Charles E. 
           Schumer.

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under 
rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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