Wrap Up for Wednesday, September 27, 2017
- Confirmation of Executive Calendar #95, Heath Tarbert to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; confirmed: 87-8.
- Confirmation of Executive Calendar #106, Makam Delrahaim to be Assistant Attorney General; confirmed: 73-21.
Legislative Business
Passed H.R.3819: to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Passed H.R.2266: to amend title 28 of the United States Code to authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges; and for other purposes.
Adopted S.Res.269: designating September 2017, as "National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month".
Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business H.R.3354, omnibus appropriations.
Executive Business
Confirmed Executive Calendar #349, General Joseph Dunford, for reappointment as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointment in the United States Marine Corps to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of importance and responsibility under title 10, U.S.C., sections 152 and 601: to be General.
