[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 12087-12088]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 172, Kevin Newsom to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
  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 senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Kevin 
Christopher Newsom, of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Eleventh Circuit.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. 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 senior assistant 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 Kevin Christopher Newson, of Alabama, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.

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         Dan Sullivan, John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Orrin G. Hatch, 
           Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Tom Cotton, Richard Burr, 
           James Lankford, Lamar Alexander, John Kennedy, Cory 
           Gardner, James M. Inhofe, Michael B. Enzi, John Thune, 
           Richard C. Shelby, Mitch McConnell.

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum call with respect to the cloture motion be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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