The Senate stands adjourned
until 10:00am on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Following leader remarks, the
Senate will resume consideration of Executive Calendar #544, Stephen Alexander
Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture,
post-cloture. All post-cloture time will expire at 12:15pm and the Senate will
vote on confirmation of the nomination. Upon disposition of the nomination,
there will be a cloture vote on the Kelley nomination.
Following the votes, we
expect to recess for the weekly caucus meetings.
Tuesday at approximately
12:15pm – 2 roll call votes
1.
Confirmation of Executive Calendar #544, Stephen Alexander
Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture
As a reminder, Senator
McConnell has filed cloture on the following nominations:
1.
Executive
Calendar #544, Stephen Alexander Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of
the Department of Agriculture (Confirmation 12:15pm Tuesday); 2.
Executive
Calendar #939, Karen Dunn Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Secretary of
Commerce (12:35pm Tuesday); 3.
Executive
Calendar #626, Thomas Alvin Farr, of North Carolina, to be US District Judge
for the Eastern District of North Carolina;
Each cloture motion will
ripen upon disposition of the previous one and each is subject to up to 30
hours of post-cloture debate time.