EXECUTIVE SESSION; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 194
(Senate - December 05, 2019)

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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. 530.
  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 bill clerk read the nomination of John Joseph Sullivan, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the Russian Federation.


                             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 Joseph Sullivan, of Maryland, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Russian Federation.
         Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Richard Burr, Pat Roberts, 
           John Cornyn, John Hoeven, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Roger F. 
           Wicker, Marco Rubio, John Boozman, James E. Risch, John 
           Barrasso, John Thune, Roy Blunt, Lamar Alexander, Mike 
           Braun, Shelley Moore Capito.

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