2:52pm The Senate began a 15 minute roll
call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #620, Samuel
Dale Brownback, of Kansas, to be Ambassador at Large for International
Religious Freedom.
Invoked: 50-49, with the Vice President voting in the affirmative
Next – voice vote expected:
1.Confirmation
of Executive Calendar #552, R. D. James to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Army Corps of Engineers.