the clerk: nomination, department of justice, andrew m. lugerf minnesota, to be united states attorney for the district of minnesota. mr. schumer: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 662, andrew m. luger of minnesota to be united states attorney for the district of minnesota, signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. schumer: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed say no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. schumer: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 677. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. all opposed

andrew m. luger. the presiding officer: the question is on the nomination. a senator: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 60, the nays are 36, and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will immediately be notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. moran: mr. president, thank you. i've lent my voice with my colleagues here in the united states senate many times here on the senate floor and elsewhere back home in kansas in condemnation of vladimir putin's attack, invasion, the death and destruction that his actions, his sole actions have taken on the people of ukraine, but those actions have consequences broader than just within the borders of the independent country of ukraine. i want today to bring awareness to a pressing consequences coming out of

the clerk: department of justice, andrew m. luger of minnesota to be united states attorney for the district of minnesota. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appointments at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: and finally, very short tonight, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. on thursday, match 17, that following the prayer and the pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day and morning business be closed. upon the conclusion of morning