Wrap Up for Thursday, March 1, 2018
Roll Call
Votes
1.
Confirmation of Executive Calendar #437, A. Marvin Quattlebaum
Jr., of South Carolina, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of South
Carolina; confirmed: 69-28.
2.
Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #438, Karen
Scholer, of Texas, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of
Texas; invoked: 96-1.
3.
Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #439, Tilman Eugene
Self III, of Georgia, to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of
Georgia; invoked: 85-12.
4.
Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #536, Terry
Doughty, of Louisiana, to be U.S District Judge for the Western District of
Louisiana; invoked: 94-2.
Legislative
Business
Passed
Calendar #305, S.1621: Rural Wireless Access Act.
Passed
H.R.3656: to amend title 38, United
States Code, to provide for a consistent eligibility date for provision of
Department of Veterans Affairs memorial headstones and markers for eligible
spouses and dependent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable.
Passed S.2248: to amend title
38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to
provide certain burial benefits for spouses and children of veterans who are
buried in tribal cemeteries, and for other purposes.
Passed S.2372: to amend title
38, United States Code, to provide outer burial receptacles for remains buried
in National Parks and for other purposes.
Adopted S.Res.419: National
Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Adopted S.Res.420: World
Wildlife Day.
Adopted S.Res.421: condemning
the horrific attack in Parkland, Florida, and expressing support and prayers
for all those impacted by that tragedy.
Adopted S.Res.422: Read
Across America Day.
Adopted S.Res.423: Rare
Disease Day.
Completed the
Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business H.R.1865:
Allow States and Victims to Fight
Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017.
Executive
Business
Confirmed the following military promotions:
AIR FORCE
Executive Calendar #700 – Col. Lee H. Harvis
to be Brigadier General
Executive Calendar #701 – The following to be
Brigadier General:
Col. Michael L.
Ahmann
Col. Peter G.
Bailey
Col. Malinda M.
Beggs
Col. Eric L.
Bratu
Col. Benjamin M.
Cason
Col. Mark A.
Chidley
Col. Troy T.
Daniels
Col. Nicholas A.
Gentile, Jr.
Col. Thomas F.
Grabowski
Col. Andrew W.
Love
Col. Richard R.
Neely
Col. Russell L.
Ponder
Col. Donna M.
Prigmore
Col. Robert D.
Reyner
Col. James A.
Roberts
Col. Raymond S.
Robinson, IV
Col. James P.
Ryan
Col. Darrin E.
Slaten
Col. Christopher
L. Smith
Col. Jeffrey S.
Smith
Col. Justin B.
Smith
Col. Mark A.
Weber
Col. Jeffrey L.
Wilkinson
Col. John P. York
Executive Calendar #702 – The following to be
Brigadier General:
Col. Christopher
R. Alderdice
Col. Robert S.
Grant
Col. Paul N.
Loiselle
Col. Wayne M.
McCaughey
Col. David J.
Mounkes
MARINE CORPS
Executive Calendar #703 – The following to be
Brigadier General:
Col. Timothy L.
Adams
Col. Mark A.
Hashimoto
Col. Karl D.
Pierson
AIR FORCE
Executive Calendar #704 – The following to be
Major General:
Brig. Gen. John
J. DeGoes
Brig. Gen. Robert
I. Miller
Brig. Gen. Lee E.
Payne
ARMY
Executive Calendar #705 – Brig. Gen. Jeffrey
P. Kramer to be Major General
NAVY
Executive Calendar #706 – Rear Adm. (lh)
Gordon D. Peters to be Vice Admiral
Executive Calendar #707 – Rear Adm. Brian B.
Brown to be Vice Admiral
AIR FORCE
Executive Calendar #708 – Col. John J. Allen
to be Brigadier General
ARMY
Executive Calendar #709 – Col. Todd M.
Lazaroski to be Brigadier General
And all nominations on the Secretary’s Desk in
the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy
Confirmed the following Finance Committee
nominations:
Executive
Calendar #398 - Gregory Doud, of Kansas, to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator,
Office of the United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador.
UNITED
STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
Executive
Calendar #399 - Jason Kearns, of Colorado, to be a Member of the United States
International Trade Commission for the term expiring December 16, 2024.
EXECUTIVE
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Executive
Calendar #698 - Dennis Shea, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United States
Trade Representative (Geneva Office), with the rank of Ambassador.
Executive
Calendar #699 - C. J. Mahoney, of Kansas, to be a Deputy United States
Trade Representative (Investment, Services, Labor, Environment, Africa, China,
and the Western Hemisphere), with the rank of Ambassador.