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Wrap Up for Monday, November 17, 2014

Roll Call Votes
  1. Adoption of the motion to concur in the House amendment to S.1086, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014; Adopted: 88-1.
  2. Cloture on Executive Calendar #856, Leslie Joyce Abrams, to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia; Invoked: 68-28.
  3. Cloture on Executive Calendar #857, Mark Howard Cohen, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia; Invoked: 67-29.
  4. Cloture on Executive Calendar #858, Eleanor Louise Ross, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia; Invoked: 66-29.
Legislative Business

Adopted S.Res.579: relative to the death of Howard O. Greene Jr.

Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business H.R.2

Executive Business

Confirmed the following by voice vote:

  1. Executive Calendar #1050, Barbara A. Leaf, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the United Arab Emirates
  2. Executive Calendar #898, Theodore G. Osius III, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  3. Executive Calendar #961, Erica J. Barks Ruggles, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Rwanda
  4. Executive Calendar #533, Karen Clark Stanton, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste