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When the Senate resumed consideration of HR 2354, the Energy and Water appropriations bill, Senator Reid withdrew the committee reported substitute amendment. He then offered a new substitute amendment #956, which included the text of Energy and Water, Financial Services/General Government; and...

The Senate stands in recess until 3pm to allow for the weekly caucus meetings.

At approximately 11:00am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following: Cal #354 Sharon L. Gleason, to be United States District Judge for the District of Alaska and Cal #355 Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, to be United States District Judge for the...

The Senate is considering the motion to proceed to HR 2354, the Energy and Water Appropriations bill, post-cloture. There will be no further roll call votes today. There will be no roll call votes tomorrow or Monday. The Senate will debate the Energy and Water bill Monday. Senators should expect a...

At approximately 12:05pm, there will be up to 2 roll call votes in relation to the following items: Motion to proceed to S.J.Res.6, Net Neutrality/FCC (majority threshold) (2 minutes of debate) Motion to proceed to S.J.Res.27, Cross Border Air Protection/EPA (majority threshold) By unanimous...

The Senate is now considering the McConnell motion to proceed to S.J.Res.6, a joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices with up to 4 hours of debate equally divided and controlled...

During Tuesday's session of the Senate, cloture was filed on the motion to proceed to H.R.2354, the Energy and Water Appropriations bill (the expected vehicle for the Energy & Water, Financial Services and State & Foreign Operations Appropriations bills).  By unanimous consent, this vote...

The Senate has reached an agreement to consider S.J.Res.6, Net Neutrality/FCC (Hutchison), S.J.Res.27, Cross Border Air Pollution/EPA (Paul) and H.R.647, the 3% Withholding Repeal Act.  The votes with respect to these items, as well as a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R.2354, the Energy...

At approximately 12:15pm, the Senate will conduct a roll call vote on confirmation of Evan Jonathan Wallach, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit.

Following Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 5pm. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R.674, the 3% Withholding Repeal and Job Creation Act, with 30 minutes for debate equally divided. At 5:30pm, the...

During Thursday's session of the Senate, cloture was filed on the motion to proceed to Calendar #212, H.R.674, the 3% Withholding Repeal and Job Creation Act.  By unanimous consent, the roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R.674 will be at 5:30pm on Monday,...

At a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider Calendar #405, the nomination of Evan Jonathan Wallach to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit.  There will be 15 minutes of...

The Senate has reached an agreement with respect to the following resolutions of disapproval: S.J.Res.6, Net Neutrality/FCC (Paul) and S.J.Res.27, Cross Border Air Pollution/EPA (Hutchison). The details of the agreement are below. At a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation...

There will be no further roll call votes this week following the vote on the Skavdahl nomination.

We expect that in addition to the 2 previously scheduled votes at approximately 3pm, there will now be a 3rd roll call vote on the Skavadahl nomination.  Therefore the series will be as follows: Reid motion to proceed to S.1769, the Rebuild America Jobs Act (60-vote threshold) McConnell motion to...

At approximately 3:00pm, the Senate will conduct up to 2 roll call votes.  The first vote will be on the motion to proceed to S.1769, the Rebuild America Jobs Act (Klobuchar and others) with a 60-vote threshold.  If that is unsuccessful, there will be a 2nd roll call vote on the motion to proceed to...

At a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following: Cal #353 Scott Wesley Skavdahl - to be US District Judge for the District of Wyoming Cal #356 Richard G. Andrews - to be US District...

During Tuesday's session of the Senate, cloture was filed on the motion to proceed to S.1769, the Rebuild America Jobs Act. Unless an agreement is reached, this vote will occur Thursday morning.

2012 Calendar - 112th Congress, Second Session Convene - January 23, 2012 (Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday January 16) 4 weeks February 20 - 24 State Work Period (Presidents' Day February 20) 5 weeks March 5- NO VOTE (Monday) March 12 - NO VOTE (Monday) March 19 - NO VOTE (Monday) April 2 - April 13...

The Senate will recess from 3:30-4:30pm for a members only briefing on national security issues.