5:33pm the Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on confirmation of Executive
Calendar #6, Denis Richard McDonough, of Maryland, to be Secretary of Veterans
Affairs.Confirmed: 87-7.
2:43am the Senate began a
10 minute roll call vote on the motion to waive the budget with respect to Cruz
#811 (employment based visas).Not waived: 40-60.
1:50am the Senate began a
10 minute roll call vote on the motion to waive the budget with respect to
Cassidy #483 (EIP to prisoners).Not agreed to: 50-50.