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                             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 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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination 
     of John P. Abizaid, of Nevada, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
     and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
         Mitch McConnell, Mike Crapo, John Thune, John Barrasso, 
           Johnny Isakson, Pat Roberts, John Cornyn, Lindsey 
           Graham, Thom Tillis, Roy Blunt, John Boozman, James E. 
           Risch, Roger F. Wicker, John Hoeven, Mike Rounds, Steve 
           Daines, Shelley Moore Capito.

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