[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 19182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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   NOMINATION OF SLOAN D. GIBSON TO BE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF VETERANS 
                                AFFAIRS

  Mr. REID. I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar 
No. 455.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The clerk will report the nomination.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Sloan D. 
Gibson, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs.


                             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 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 
     Sloan D. Gibson, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
         Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Mark Begich, Richard 
           Blumenthal, Benjamin L. Cardin, Tom Udall, Debbie 
           Stabenow, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bernard Sanders, Mazie K. 
           Hirono, Christopher A. Coons, Jon Tester, Martin 
           Heinrich, Brian Schatz, Claire McCaskill, Heidi 
           Heitkamp, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

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