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Complete Wrap Up for Friday, December 18, 2015

Roll Call Votes
  1. 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.
  1. Motion to table the first amendment (Omnibus) to the Senate amendment to H.R.2029; not agreed to: 31-67.
  1. Motion to waive budget points of order with respect to H.R.2029; agreed to: 73-25.
  1. Motion to concur in the House amendments to the Senate amendment to H.R.2029; agreed to: 65-33.

Legislative Business

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 Sesquicentennial.

Adopted S.Res.339 - University of Iowa College of Law.

Passed Calendar #303, S.1115 - GONE Act, with Fischer substitute amendment.

Adopted S.Res.342 - Wheeling Jesuit Women's Volleyball.

Agreed to H.Con.Res.104 - Adjournment Resolution

Passed by voice vote H.R.4188 - Coast Guard Reauthorization, with Thune amendment.

Passed S.1893 - Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act, with committee-reported substitute, Murkowski, and Lee amendments.

Began the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business S.2434 - Separation of Powers Restoration and Second Amendment Protection Act (Paul).

Executive Business

Confirmed the following nominations by voice vote:

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Executive Calendar #438 - Patrick Joseph Murphy, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of the Army.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Executive Calendar #432 - Shoshana Miriam Lew, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Transportation.

PEACE CORPS

Executive Calendar #424 - Carlos J. Torres, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Executive Calendar #383 - Suzette M. Kimball, of West Virginia, to be Director of the United States Geological Survey.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Executive Calendar #332 and #333 - David Malcolm Robinson to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization/Assistant Secretary of State.