Schedule for Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The Senate stands adjourned
until 10:00am on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Following leader remarks, the
Senate will resume consideration of Executive Calendar #544, Stephen Alexander
Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture,
post-cloture. All post-cloture time will expire at 12:15pm and the Senate will
vote on confirmation of the nomination. Upon disposition of the nomination,
there will be a cloture vote on the Kelley nomination.
Following the votes, we
expect to recess for the weekly caucus meetings.
Tuesday at approximately
12:15pm – 2 roll call votes
1.
Confirmation of Executive Calendar #544, Stephen Alexander
Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture
2.
Cloture on Executive
Calendar #939, Karen Dunn Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Secretary of
Commerce
As a reminder, Senator
McConnell has filed cloture on the following nominations:
1.
Executive
Calendar #544, Stephen Alexander Vaden, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of
the Department of Agriculture (Confirmation 12:15pm Tuesday);
2.
Executive
Calendar #939, Karen Dunn Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Secretary of
Commerce (12:35pm Tuesday);
3.
Executive
Calendar #626, Thomas Alvin Farr, of North Carolina, to be US District Judge
for the Eastern District of North Carolina;
4.
Executive
Calendar #1141, Jonathan A Kobes, of South Dakota, to be US Circuit Judge for
the Eighth Circuit; and
5.
Executive
Calendar #1064, Kathleen Laura Kraninger, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of
Consumer Financial Protection
Each cloture motion will
ripen upon disposition of the previous one and each is subject to up to 30
hours of post-cloture debate time.
