2:16pm The Senate began a
15 minute roll call vote on confirmation of Executive
Calendar #597, Alex Michael Azar II, of Indiana, to be Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
1.Motion to invoke
cloture on Executive Calendar #620, Samuel Dale Brownback, of Kansas, to be
Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom (roll call vote).
2.Confirmation of Executive Calendar #552, R. D. James
to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army (Army Corps of Engineers (voice vote
expected).