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WRAP UP

The Senate has passed the following legislative items: Passed S.2425 - Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act. Passed H.R.1321 - Microbeads. Passed Calendar #291, S.2152 - Electrify Africa, with committee reported amendments and Corker amendment. Adopted S.Res.338 - Towson University...

Roll Call Votes Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendments to the Senate amendment to H.R.2029 (Omnibus); invoked: 72-26. Motion to table the first amendment (Omnibus) to the Senate amendment to H.R.2029; not agreed to: 31-67. Motion to waive budget points of order...

No Roll Call Votes Legislative Business Passed by voice vote Cal. #143, H.R.2576, TSCA Modernization Act, as amended with an Inhofe substitute amendment. Agreed to H.Con.Res.102 - providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a message from the President. Passed H.J.Res.76 - appointing the...

No Roll Call Votes Legislative Business Passed H.R.3594, Perkins Loans with Alexander substitute amendment. Passed S.238, Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015.    Passed H.J.Res.78, continuing resolution through December 22, 2015. Passed H.R.3831 - Securing Fairness In...

No Roll Call Votes Legislative Business Passed Calendar #319, S.571 - Pilot's Bill of Rights, with committee-reported substitute amendment and a Feinstein amendment. Adopted S.Res.336, honoring the Portland Timbers as the champions of Major League Soccer in 2015.   Executive Business Confirmed the...

Roll Call Votes Confirmation of Executive Calendar #393, Alissa M. Starzak, of New York, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Army; confirmed: 45-34. Legislative Business Passed H.R. 2270 - Bill Frank, Jr. Adopted S. Res. 334 - Penn State Women's Soccer. Passed Calendar #316, S.2044 -...

No Roll Call Votes Legislative Business Passed H.R.2250, as amended with the text of H.J.Res.75, Continuing Resolution through December 16. Passed Calendar #35, S.142 - Child Nicotine Poisoning Passed Calendar #62, S.993 - Comprehensive Justice and Mental Health w/ Franken amdt. Passed Calendar...

Roll Call Votes Adoption of the conference report to accompany S.1177, ESEA; adopted: 85-12. Legislative Business Passed Calendar #311, H.R.2820 - Stem Cell Adopted S.Res.317 - American Visionary Art Museum   Executive Business Confirmed the following nominations by voice vote DEPARTMENT OF...

Roll Call Votes Motion to invoke cloture on the conference report to accompany S.1177, ESEA; invoked: 84-12. Legislative Business Passed Calendar #306, S.1719: RAISE Family Caregivers Act, with committee-reported substitute amendment. Passed Calendar #135, S.Res.207: World Press Freedom...

Roll Call Votes Confirmation of Executive Calendar #214, Travis Randall McDonough, of Tennessee, to be US District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee; confirmed: 89-0. Legislative Business Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business S.2359, to restore...

Roll Call Votes Motion to Table Murray SA #2876 (women's health care security); tabled: 54-46. Johnson SA #2875 (keep plan) [60 vote affirmative threshold]; not agreed to: 56-44 Motion to Waive Budget Act Point of Order re: Brown SA #2883 (FMAP); not waived: 45-55. Collins SA #2885 (Strike Planned...

No Roll Call Votes   Legislative Business Adopted S.Res.324, National Phenylketonuria Awareness Day. Adopted S.Res.325, Holiday charity donations.   Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business H.R.427, Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of...

No Roll Call Votes   Legislative Business Began the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business H.R.427, Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015.   No Executive Business

Roll Call Votes Confirmation of Executive Calendar #268, the nomination of Gayle Smith, of Ohio, to be Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development; confirmed: 79-7.   Legislative Business Passed Calendar #139, S.1698: Payments in Eugenics Compensation. Adopted...

Roll Call Votes Confirmation of Executive Calendar #366, Peter William Bodde, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Libya; confirmed: 95-0.   Legislative Business Passed by voice vote H.R.3996: Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015 (December...

Roll Call Votes Motion to invoke cloture on the compound motion to go to conference on S.1177, ESEA; invoked: 91-6.   Legislative Business Adopted S.Res.315, expressing support for the goals of both National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month. Agreed to H.Con.Res.93, authorizing the use of...

Roll Call Votes Passage of S.J.Res.24, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric...

Roll Call Votes Confirmation of Executive Calendar #141, LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall, of New York, to be US District Judge for the Eastern District of New York; confirmed: 93-1.   Legislative Business Adopted S.Res.313, condemning the terrorist attacks in Paris and offering thoughts and prayers...

Roll Call Votes Motion to concur in the House amendment to S.1356, NDAA; agreed to: 91-3. Passage of H.R.2029, as amended (Military Construction VA appropriations); passed: 93-0. Motion to invoke cloture on the compound motion to go to conference on H.R.22, surface transportation; agreed to:...

Roll Call Votes Confirmation of Scott Allen to be US Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; confirmed: 83-0.   Legislative Business Passed S.1004, to amend title 36, United States Code, to encourage the nationwide observance of two minutes of silence each Veterans...