Schedule for pro formas and Monday, April 9, 2018
Schedule for pro formas and Monday, April 9, 2018
The
Senate stands adjourned until 11:30am on Monday, March 26, 2018. There will be
pro forma sessions, with no business conducted, on the following dates and times:
Monday, March 26th at 11:30am
Thursday, March 29th at 3:45pm
Monday, April 2nd at 12:00 noon
Thursday, April 5th at 11:30am
On Monday,
April 9th, the Senate will convene at 3:00pm.
Following
leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session and resume consideration
of Executive Calendar #539, Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, to be US District
Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. Notwithstanding Rule
22, the cloture motions filed during Thursday’s session will ripen at 5:30pm on
Monday, April 9th.
At
5:30pm on Monday, April 9th, there will be a cloture vote on the Boom
nomination.
Senator
McConnell filed cloture on the following nominations:
1.
Executive Calendar #539, Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, to be US
District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky
2.
Executive Calendar #728, John F. Ring, of the District of
Columbia, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board
3.
Executive Calendar #605, Patrick Pizzella ,of Virginia, to be
Deputy Secretary of Labor
4.
Executive Calendar #666, Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Administrator of the EPA
5.
Executive Calendar #540, John W. Broomes, of Kansas, to be United
States District Judge for the District of Kansas
6.
Executive Calendar #541, Rebecca Grady Jennings, of Kentucky, to
be United States District Judge for the Western District
If
cloture is invoked on a nomination, there would be up to 30 hours of
post-cloture debate prior to a vote on confirmation. Then on to cloture on the
next nomination with the same process.
