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  • The Senate has reached an agreement to yield back all remaining post-cloture time and vote (voice vote) on adoption of the motion to proceed to S. 1, a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Further, that the Murkowski amendment #2 (substitute) be offered. The following amendments are in order to...
  • The Senate stands adjourned until 10:00am on Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume the motion to proceed to S.1 until 12:30 with the time equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. The Senate will recess from 12:30 - 2:15pm to...
  • Roll Call Votes Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; Invoked: 63-32.
  • Cloture was invoked on the motion to proceed to S. 1, Keystone, by a vote of 63-32. There will now be up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate on the motion to proceed. The Senate is in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each, with the time...
  • 5:30pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on the motion to proceed to S.1, a bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; Invoked: 63-32
  • The Senate has convened and has resumed consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 1, a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, with the time until 5:30pm equally divided. At 5:30pm today, there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the Keystone pipeline bill. If cloture is invoked,...
  • The Senate stands adjourned until 2:00pm on Monday, January 12, 2015. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S.1, the Keystone bill. The time until 5:30pm will be equally divided and controlled in the usual form. 5:30pm-1 roll call vote Motion...
  • 12:15pm: the Senate stands adjourned until Monday, January 12 at 2:00 PM.
  • The Senate stands adjourned until 9:30am on Friday, January 9, 2015. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.
  • Roll Call Votes Warren amendment #1 to H.R.26, TRIA; Not agreed to: 31-66. Passage of H.R.26, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act; Passed: 93-4. Legislative Business Agreed to S.Con.Res.2, Use of Emancipation Hall Adopted S.Res.23, Majority Party Appointments with Chairman Adopted S.Res.24, 150th...
  • Senator McConnell asked unanimous consent that at 2:00pm on Monday, January 12th, the motion to proceed to the consideration of S.1, a bill to approve the Keystone pipeline, be agreed to;  and that Senator Murkowski be recognized to offer a substitute amendment that is the text of the...
  • 2:13pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on passage of H.R. 26, TRIA; Passed: 93-4
  • 1:45pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on Warren amendment #1 (TRIA minus end user) to HR. 26, TRIA; Not Agreed To: 31-66 Next: Passage of H..R.26, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, as amended, if amended.
  • The Senate has begun consideration of H.R.26, TRIA. The time until 1:45pm will be equally divided in the usual form. At 1:45pm, there will be 2 roll call votes on the following items: Warren substitute amendment  (TRIA minus end user provision) Passage of H..R.26, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, as...
  • After the Senate convened, we reached an agreement to consider the TRIA legislation. Under the agreement, there will be 2 roll call votes beginning at 1:45pm today. Those votes will be in relation to the Warren amendment and passage of the TRIA bill, as amended, if amended. Each are subject to a...
  • The Senate stands adjourned until 11:00am on Thursday, January 8, 2015. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. Pryor to adjourning, Senator McConnell announced that the Energy Committee...
  • Legislative Business Adopted S.Res.21: Majority Party Committee Assignments Adopted S.Res.22: Minority Party Committee Assignments
  • The Senate stands adjourned under the provisions of S.Res.19 until 9:30am on Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The Senate will recess from 12:30 to 2:15pm to...
  • Legislative Business Adopted S.Res.1, notifying the President that a quorum of each House has assembled Adopted S.Res.2, notifying the House that a quorum of the Senate has assembled Adopted S.Res.3, electing Orrin Hatch of Utah President of the Senate pro tempore Adopted S.Res.4, notifying the...
  • Roll Call Votes Cloture on Executive Calendar #1084, Sarah R. Saldana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Invoked: 53-41. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #1084, Sarah R. Saldana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Confirmed: 55-39. Cloture on Executive Calendar...