Schedule for Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Senate stands
adjourned until 12:45pm on Wednesday, February 28, 2018.
Following leader
remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of Executive Calendar #153, Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, post-cloture.
All post-cloture time on the
Vought nomination will expire at 4:30pm and the Senate will vote on
confirmation of the nomination. Upon disposition of the Vought nomination, the
Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #437, A.
Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., of South Carolina, to be United States District Judge
for the District of South Carolina.
Wednesday at 4:30pm – 2 roll
call votes:
1)
Confirmation of
Executive Calendar #153, Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of
the Office of Management and Budget
2)
Motion to invoke
cloture on Executive Calendar #437, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., of South
Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina
As a reminder, Senator
McConnell has filed cloture on the following nominations:
1.
Executive
Calendar #153, Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of the Office
of Management and Budget
2.
Executive
Calendar #437, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., of South Carolina, to be United
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina
3.
Executive
Calendar #438, Karen Scholer, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Texas
4.
Executive
Calendar #439, Tilman Eugene Self III, of Georgia, to be United States District
Judge for the Middle District of Georgia
5.
Executive
Calendar #536, Terry Doughty, of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge
for the Western District of Louisiana
Each nomination is subject to
a cloture vote and then, if cloture is invoked, up to 30 hours of post-cloture
debate prior to a vote on confirmation. Upon disposition of the first
nomination, there would be a cloture vote on the next nomination in the series.
