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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 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 Kenneth D. Bell, of North Carolina, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina.
         Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Joni Ernst, Steve Daines, 
           Roger F. Wicker, John Thune, Thom Tillis, John Kennedy, 
           John Boozman, Pat Roberts, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn, 
           Richard Burr, John Barrasso, Lindsey Graham, Cindy 
           Hyde-Smith.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.