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Senate Floor Wrap Up For Friday, December 10, 2010

  • Passed S.3817, CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010
  • Passed H.R.2941, a bill to reauthorize and enhance Johanna's Law to increase public awareness and knowledge with respect to gynecological cancers (with committee reported substitute amendment).
  • Passed S.372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 (with committee reported substitute amendment and Akaka amendment).
  • Adopted S.Con.Res.77, to provide for the approval of final regulations issued by the Office of Compliance to implement the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 that apply to the Senate and employees of the Senate.
  • Adopted S.Res.700, to provide for the approval of final regulations issued by the Office of Compliance to implement the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 that apply to the Senate and employees of the Senate.
  • The Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  • Ripley Rand to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina
  • Charles Oberly III to be United States Attorney for the District of Delaware
  • William Conner Eldridge to be United States Attorney for the District of Arkansas
  • Frank Leon-Guerrero to be United States Marshal for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands
  • Charles Thomas Weeks II to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma
  • Kenneth Bohac to be United States Marshal for the Central District of Illinois
  • General Claude R. Kehler, to be General, Air Force
  • Coast Guard grade - to be Rear Admiral
  • All of the nominations on the Secretary's desk for the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration