Wrap Up for Thursday, January 11, 2018
Roll Call
Votes
1)
Confirmation of
Executive Calendar #389, Michael Lawrence Brown, of Georgia, to be US District
Judge for the Northern District of Georgia; confirmed: 92-0.
2)
Motion to invoke
cloture on Executive Calendar #435, Walter David Counts III, of Texas, to be US
District Judge for the Western District of Texas; invoked: 90-1.
3)
Confirmation of
Executive Calendar #435, Walter David Counts III, of Texas, to be US District
Judge for the Western District of Texas; confirmed: 96-0.
4)
Motion to lay before the Senate the message to accompany S.139
(FISA 702); agreed to: 68-27.
Legislative Business
By voice vote, the Senate passed H.R.984: Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal
Recognition Act of 2017.
Adopted S.Res.372: congratulating
the North Dakota State University football team for winning the 2017 National
Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision
title.
Passed H.R.4641: to authorize the President to
award the Medal of Honor to John L. Canley for acts of valor during the Vietnam
War while a member of the Marine Corps.
No Executive
Business
