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Schedule for Wednesday, June 4, 2014 The Senate stands adjourned until 9:30am on Wednesday, June 4. Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 11:00am with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each and the time equally divided and controlled...

Roll Call Vote Confirmation of Executive Calendar #633, Keith Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council; Confirmed: 52-42 Cloture on Executive Calendar #755, Sharon Bowen, of New York, to be a...

The Senate confirmed the Massad and Giancarlo nominations by voice votes. There will be no further roll call votes tonight. The next votes are scheduled to begin at 11:00am tomorrow.

The Senate also reached an agreement to consider the remaining CFTC nominations today. Following the cloture vote on the Chutkan nomination, the Senate will proceed to vote on confirmation of the following nominations: Executive Calendar #752 Timothy G. Massad, of Connecticut, to be a Commissioner...

5:13pm The Senate began a 10-minute roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #733, Tanya S. Chutkan, of the District of Columbia, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia Invoked: 54-40

4:56pm The Senate began a 10 minute roll call vote on the motion to invoke Cloture on  Executive Calendar #692, Bruce Howe Hendricks, of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of South Carolina Invoked: 59-35

4:40pm The Senate began a 10 minute roll call vote on cloture on Executive Calendar #691, Mark G. Mastroianni, of Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; Invoked: 56-39

4:05pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on confirmation of Executive Calendar #755, Sharon Bowen, of New York, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Confirmed: 48-46 The remaining votes in this series will be 10 minutes in length. Next: Cloture on Executive...

Cloture was invoked on the Bowen nomination 50-44. The Senate then reached an agreement to vote at 4:00pm on confirmation of the Bowen nomination and to vote on cloture on the 3 district court nominations. Also under the agreement, at 11:00am tomorrow, Wednesday, June 4, the Senate will proceed to...

12:28pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #755, Sharon Bowen, of New York, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Invoked: 50-44

12:01pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on confirmation of Executive Calendar #633, Keith Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council; Confirmed: 52-42 Next: Motion to invoke cloture on...

At 12:00 noon today, there will be 2 roll call votes related to the following nominations: Confirmation of Executive Calendar #633, Keith Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council; and Motion to invoke...

The Senate stands adjourned until 10:00am on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in morning business until 11:00am with the Majority controlling the first half and the Republicans controlling the final half. At 11:00am, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session...

Roll Call Vote 1)     Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #633, Keith Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council; Invoked: 51-37 No Legislative items No Executive items

At 5:33pm, the Senate began a 15-minute roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #633, Keith Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council. Invoked: 51-37

The Senate will convene at 2:00pm on Monday, June 2, 2014. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:30pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. At 5:30pm, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider Executive...

The Senate will meet for pro forma sessions only with no business conducted on the following dates at the following times: -        Friday, May 23rd at 10:00am -        Tuesday, May 27th at 12:00 noon and -        Friday, May 30th at 2:00pm.

During Thursday's session of the Senate, Senator Reid file cloture on the following items: -        Executive Calendar #633, Keith Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council (up to 8 hours of...

Roll Call Votes 1)     Confirmation of Executive Calendar 576, David Jeremiah Barron, of Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit; Confirmed: 53-45 2)     Adoption of the conference report to accompany H.R.3080, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (60-vote...

Senator Reid asked unanimous consent to take up and confirm Executive Calendar #767  Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of four years. On behalf of Senator Paul, Senator Hatch objected.