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Senate Floor Wrap Up for Thursday, October 13, 2011

ROLL CALL VOTES

1)      Confirmation of Calendar #251, Alison J. Nathan, of NY, to be US District Judge for the Southern District of New York; Confirmed: 48-44

2)      Confirmation of Calendar #252, Susan Owens Hickey, of AR, to be US District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas; Confirmed: 83-8

LEGISLATIVE ITEMS

Adopted S.Con.Res.31, Directing the Secretary of the Senate to make a correction in the enrollment of S.1280.

Adopted S.Res.293, celebrating the 10-year commemoration of the Underground Railroad Memorial, comprised of the Gateway to Freedom Monument in Detroit, Michigan and the Tower of Freedom Monument in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

EXECUTIVE ITEMS

Confirmed Calendar #253, Katherine B. Forrest, of NY, to be US District Judge for the Southern District of New York by voice vote

Confirmed #287 Sung Y. Kim - to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Korea