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During Thursday's session of the Senate, cloture was filed on the Reid motion to proceed to H.R.3630, the House Republican Payroll Tax bill.  Unless an agreement is reached, this vote will occur Saturday morning.

There will be no further roll call votes during today's session.  The Senate is now in a period of morning business until 7:00pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

The time for debate on the Conference Report to accompany H.R.1540, the DoD Authorization bill has been extended until 4:00pm. At approximately 4:00pm, there will be 2 roll call votes on the following: Adoption of the Conference Report to accompany H.R.1540 and Confirmation of Morgan Christen to be...

At approximately 10:40am today, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider Calendar #337, the nomination of Morgan Christen, of Alaska, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.  There will be 30 minutes of debate on the nomination, equally divided and controlled between...

Morning business has been extended until 7:30pm.

Senator Boxer asked unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the consideration of H.R. 3630, Republican House Tax Relief bill, that there be two hours of debate, equally divided between the two Leaders, or their designees, prior to a vote on passage of the bill; that no amendments be in order prior...

Following the votes, the Senate turned to a period of morning business until 5pm with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. Senator Durbin then asked unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of H.R. 3630, Republican House Tax Relief bill, that there be...

There will now be 1 hour of morning business (Majority controls the first 30 minutes and the Republicans control the final 30 minutes). Following morning business, there will be 10 minutes for debate prior to a series of 2 roll call votes in relation to the following items: -          S.J.Res.24, a...

There will be no further roll call votes this evening. The Senate is now in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

As a reminder, at approximately 5:30pm today, there will be up to 3 and at least 2 roll call votes in relation the following: -          Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #360 Norman L. Eisen to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Czech...

During Thursday's session of the Senate, cloture was filed on the following nominations, in the following order: #360 Norman L. Eisen - to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Czech Republic #501 Mari Carmen Aponte - to be Ambassador Extraordinary...

Following the vote on the McConnell motion to proceed to S.1931, there will be no further roll call votes this week.

By unanimous consent, at 2:30pm today there will be 2 roll call votes in relation to the following motions: -         Reid motion to proceed to S.1944, Middle Class Tax Cut Act of 2011 (Casey) -         McConnell motion to proceed to S.1931, Temporary Tax Holiday and Government Reduction Act...

At approximately 10:30am today, the Senate will conduct a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

This morning Senator Reid moved to proceed to S.1944, a bill to create jobs by providing payroll tax relief for middle class families and businesses, and filed cloture on the motion. We expect the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to occur Friday morning.

During Tuesday's session of the Senate, cloture was filed on Executive Calendar #413, the nomination of Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection for a term of five years.  If no agreement is reached, this vote will occur Thursday morning.

At approximately 12:00pm, there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Caitlyn Halligan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.

At 4:30pm today, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following nominations: -          #363 Edgardo Ramos - to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York  -          #364 Andrew L. Carter, Jr. - to be United States District Judge for the Southern...

This evening Senator Reid filed cloture on the nomination of Caitlin Joan Halligan, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia. By unanimous consent, at 11am on Tuesday, December 6, there will be 1 hour for debate prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Halligan nomination.

The Senate has reached an agreement to have additional votes regarding the Majority and Republican versions of the payroll tax bills.  Below is order of the remaining votes this evening.  There are 2 minutes prior to each vote and all votes will be 10 minutes in duration. #1209 Nelson (FL) (Survivor...