Cloture filed on Bennett, Benczkowski, and Ney nominations
Senator McConnell filed
cloture on the following nominations:
1.
Executive
Calendar #836, Mark Jeremy Bennett, of Hawaii, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Ninth Circuit
2.
Executive
Calendar #639, Brian Allen Benczkowski, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Attorney General
3.
Executive
Calendar #686, Paul C. Ney, Jr. of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the
Department of Defense
The cloture vote on the
Bennett nomination will occur at 5:30pm on Monday, July 9th at
5:30pm.
If cloture is invoked on any
of the nominations, there would be up to 30 hours of debate prior to a vote on
confirmation of the nomination before moving to the next cloture vote.
