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                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 422.
  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 Barbara 
McConnell Barrett, of Arizona, to be Secretary of the Air Force.


                             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 Barbara McConnell Barrett, of Arizona, to be Secretary of 
     the Air Force.
         Mitch McConnell, Martha McSally, Rick Scott, John Thune, 
           Mike Crapo, Lamar Alexander, Johnny Isakson, John 
           Cornyn, Roy Blunt, Roger F. Wicker, John Hoeven, Mike 
           Rounds, Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, John Boozman, Cindy 
           Hyde-Smith, James E. Risch.

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