[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11290]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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 NOMINATION OF RICHARD F. GRIFFIN, JR., TO BE A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL 
                         LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I move to proceed to executive session to 
consider Calendar No. 100.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Richard F. Griffin, Jr., of the 
District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations 
Board.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Madam President, 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 
     Richard F. Griffin, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be a 
     Member of the National Labor Relations Board.
         Harry Reid, Tom Harkin, Jeff Merkley, Benjamin L. Cardin, 
           Richard Blumenthal, Martin Heinrich, Sheldon 
           Whitehouse, Al Franken, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Brian 
           Schatz, Christopher Murphy, Richard J. Durbin, Maria 
           Cantwell, Bill Nelson, Carl Levin, Dianne Feinstein, 
           Patty Murray.

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