Schedule for Thursday April 12, 2018
The Senate stands adjourned
until 9:15am on Thursday, April 12, 2018.
Following leader remarks, the
Senate will proceed to Executive Session and resume consideration of Executive
Calendar #605, Patrick Pizzella, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor.
At 9:30am, all post-cloture
time will expire on the nomination and the Senate will vote on confirmation of
the nomination. Upon disposition of the Pizzella nomination, there will be 2
minutes for debate prior to a cloture vote on the Wheeler nomination. If
cloture is invoked, there would be up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate prior
to a vote on confirmation. Next up: Broomes and Jennings to be district
judges.
9:30am--2 roll call
votes:
1.
Confirmation of Executive
Calendar #605, Patrick Pizzella ,of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor
2.
Cloture on
Executive Calendar #666, Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Administrator of the EPA
Cloture was filed on the
following nominations:
1.
Executive Calendar
#539, Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, to be US District Judge for the Eastern
and Western Districts of Kentucky (confirmed)
2.
Executive
Calendar #728, John F. Ring, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the
National Labor Relations Board (confirmed)
3.
Executive
Calendar #605, Patrick Pizzella ,of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor
(cloture Invoked, confirmation vote 9:30am Thursday)
4.
Executive
Calendar #666, Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the
EPA (Cloture vote around 10am Thursday)
5.
Executive
Calendar #540, John W. Broomes, of Kansas, to be United States District Judge
for the District of Kansas
6.
Executive
Calendar #541, Rebecca Grady Jennings, of Kentucky, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District
If cloture is invoked on a
nomination, there would be up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate prior to a
vote on confirmation. Then on to cloture on the next nomination with the same
process.
