No Roll Call Votes
Legislative Business
Passed Calendar #17, S.337, Freedom of Information Act with a Cornyn substitute amendment.
Adopted S.Res.400 - National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day.
No Executive Business
Roll Call Votes
Confirmation of Executive Calendar #476, John B. King, of New York, to be Secretary of Education; confirmed: 49-40.
Legislative Business
Adopted S.Res.398 - National Speech and Debate Education Day
No Executive Business
Roll Call Votes
Passage of S.524, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, as amended; passed: 94-1.
McConnell motion to table the Paul motion to discharge the Foreign Relations Committee from further consideration of S.J.Res.31, a joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the proposed...
Roll Call Votes
Motion to invoke cloture on S.524, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, as amended; invoked: 93-3.
Legislative Business
The following amendments to S.524, CARA, were agreed to by voice vote:
Donnelly amendment #3374, as modified (follow up services)
Grassley-Leahy amendment...
No Roll Call Votes
Legislative Business
Passage of Calendar #358, S.2426 - to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization.
Concurred in the House amendment to S.1580 - Competitive Service Act of...
Roll Call Votes
Motion to invoke cloture on Grassley-Leahy amendment #3378 (substitute) to S.524; invoked: 86-3.
No Legislative Business
No Executive Business
Roll Call Votes
Manchin amendment #3420 (consumer education); agreed to: 90-0.
Legislative Business
Passed Calendar #370, S.2276 - SAFE PIPES Act
Adopted S.Res.389 - World Lymphedema Day
Adopted S.Res.390 - World Wildlife Day
No Executive Business
Roll Call Votes
Feinstein-Grassley amendment #3362 (DOJ); agreed to: 94-0-1.
Wyden motion to waive Enzi budget point of order re: amendment #3395 (Opioid treatments); not waived: 46-50.
Shaheen motion to waive Enzi budget point of order re: Shaheen amendment #3345 (Approps); not waived:...
Roll Call Votes
Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.524, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015; invoked: 89-0.
Legislative Business
Adopted S.Res.365 - American Hearth Month
Adopted S.Res.379 - Celebrating Black History Month
Executive Business
The Senate confirmed...
Roll Call Votes
Adoption of Res.374, relating to the death of Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; adopted: 93-0.
No Legislative Business
No Executive Business
No Roll Call Votes
Confirmation of Robert Califf to be Commissioner of Food and Drug, Department of Health and Human Services; confirmed: 89-4.
No Legislative Business
No Executive Business
Roll Call Votes
Motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Robert Califf to be Commissioner of Food and Drug, Department of Health and Human Services; invoked: 80-6.
Legislative Business
Passed H.R.890 - Chafee Costal Barrier Resources
Passed H.R.3262 - Illiana Health Care System
Passed...
Legislative Business: By voice vote, the Senate passed S.2451, A bill to designate the area between the intersections of International Drive, Northwest and Van Ness Street, Northwest and International Drive, Northwest and International Place, Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as "Liu...
Roll Call Votes
Motion to invoke cloture on conference report to accompany H.R.644, Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015; invoked: 73-22.
Adoption of the conference report to accompany H.R.644, Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015; adopted: 75-20.
Confirmation of...
Roll Call Votes
Confirmation of Executive Calendar #464, Scot Alan Marciel, of California, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Union of Burma; confirmed: 90-0.
Legislative Business
Passed Calendar #313, S.2109 - Directing Dollars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015, with Johnson...
Roll Call Votes
Confirmation of Executive Calendar #360, Rebecca Ebinger, to be US District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa; confirmed: 83-0.
Legislative Business
Adopted S.Res.366, recognizing the cultural and historical significance of Lunar New Year.
No Executive Business
Roll Call Votes
Motion to invoke cloture on Murkowski amendment #2953 (substitute), as amended, to S.2012; not invoked: 46-50-1.
Motion to invoke cloture on S.2012, Energy Policy Modernization Act; not invoked: 43-54.
Legislative Business
Agreed to H.Con.Res.109, use of Emancipation Hall.
Adopted...