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The Senate has reconvened and is in a period of morning business for debate only until 3:15pm, with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each and the time equally divided between the two Leaders or their designees. Senator Reid will be recognized at 3:15pm.

The Senate is in a period of morning business until 12:30pm. Following morning business, the Senate will recess until 2:15pm. At 2:15pm, the Senate will proceed to vote on adoption of the motion to proceed to S.1845,  Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, either by voice or roll call...

Schedule for Thursday, January 9, 2014 The Senate will convene at 10:00am on Thursday, January 9. Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 12:00 noon, with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each and the time equally divided and controlled...

NO Roll Call Votes   Legislative Business Passed H.R.667, a bill to redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range. Passed S.1171, a bill to amend the Controlled...

Today the Senate has continued to debate the motion to proceed to S.1845, Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, post-cloture. The Senate is now in a period of morning business until 6:30pm with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The time during morning...

Cloture was invoked on the motion to proceed to S.1845, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, by a vote of 60-37. There will now be up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate on the motion to proceed prior to a vote on the motion to proceed. Another message will be sent when the next vote is...

Senator McConnell asked unanimous consent that if cloture is invoked on the motion to proceed to S.1845, Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Ac; then all post cloture time be yielded back; that Senators McConnell and Hatch have the first amendment in order, which would be an amendment to...

By consent, there will now be up to 30 minutes for debate equally divided on the motion to proceed to S.1845. If all time is used, at approximately 10:58am, the Senate will proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.1845, Emergency Unemployment...

The cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S.1845, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, will occur at 10:00am tomorrow, Tuesday, January 7. There will be no further roll call votes tonight.

On Friday, January 3, the Senate convened at 11:45am. Pursuant to the Twentieth Amendment of the United States Constitution, at 12:00 noon today, the Senate convened the 2nd session of the 113th Congress. The Senate stands adjourned until 2:00pm on Monday, January 6, 2014. Under the previous order,...

The Senate has received a Message from the House on S.Con.Res.30, the adjournment resolution. As a result, there will be no pro forma sessions today, Friday, December 27 or Tuesday, December 31. As a reminder, the Senate will next convene for a pro forma session at 11:45am Friday, January 3rd. The...

Senator Durbin asked unanimous consent that all nominations received by the Senate during the 113th Congress, First Session, remain in status quo notwithstanding the provisions of Rule 31, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. Senator Graham objected. By unanimous consent, the Senate...

Senator Schumer asked unanimous consent the Senate up and pass S.1882, a bill to extend the exclusion from income for employer-provided mass transit and parking benefit. Senator Hatched asked the request be modified and that the bill be referred to the Finance Committee. Senator Schumer objected to...

Senator Durbin moved to proceed to Calendar #265, S.1845, A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. He then filed cloture on the motion to proceed. Senators will be notified when the vote is scheduled.

The Senate is in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

At approximately 10:03am this morning, there will be 6 roll call votes: 1)      Confirmation of the Mayorkas nomination, Live quorum 2)      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #459, John Koskinen, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue 3)      Confirmation of...

The Senate has reached an agreement with respect to several nominations.  Under the unanimous consent agreement, there will be 2 roll call votes at 11:14pm this evening, 6 roll call votes at 10:00am Friday and one roll call vote at a time to be determined on Monday, January 6th.  The details of the...

Senator Cornyn asked unanimous consent to set aside the pending motion to concur with Reid #2552 amendment in order to make a motion to concur with Cornyn amendment #2606 (to provide for the award of medals for members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees of the Department of Defense who were...

Senator Reed (RI) asked unanimous consent the Senate take up and pass Calendar #265, S. 1845, a bill to extend unemployment insurance benefits for 3 months. Senator Cornyn asked that the request be modified that that all pending cloture motions on Executive nominations be withdrawn, and that the...

The Senate will recess from 12:45pm until 2:15pm. The time will count against post-cloture debate on NDAA. The time from 2:15 until 2:35pm will be controlled by the Majority Leader, or his designee, and the time from 2:35pm until 3:15pm will be controlled by the Republican Leader, or his...