Cloture filed on 6 nominations--Branch, Vought, Quattlebaum, Scholer, Self, and Doughty
Senator McConnell has filed
cloture on the following nominations:
1.
Executive
Calendar #623, Elizabeth Branch, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Eleventh Circuit
2.
Executive
Calendar #153, Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of the Office
of Management and Budget
3.
Executive
Calendar #437, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., of South Carolina, to be United
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina
4.
Executive
Calendar #438, Karen Scholer, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Texas
5.
Executive
Calendar #439, Tilman Eugene Self III, of Georgia, to be United States District
Judge for the Middle District of Georgia
6.
Executive
Calendar #536, Terry Doughty, of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge
for the Western District of Louisiana
The first cloture vote is
expected to occur at 5:30pm on Monday, February 26th. We plan to
lock in the vote in the closing script tonight. If cloture is invoked on a
nomination, there would be up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate prior to a
vote on confirmation of the nomination. Then, there would be a cloture vote on
the next nomination in the list and the process would repeat. If cloture is not
invoked on a nomination, we would immediately vote on cloture on the next
nomination.
