Wrap Up for Thursday, July 25, 2019

Roll Call Votes

1.       Confirmation of Executive Calendar #375, General Mark A. Milley, to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; confirmed: 89-1.

Legislative Business

Passed Calendar #47, H.R.504: DHS Field Engagement Accountability Act.

Passed Calendar #111, S.1275: FACE Act.

Passed H.R.2196: to reduce the credit hour requirement for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Passed H.R.1569: to add Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of locations in which court shall be held in the judicial district for the States of Arizona.

Adopted S.Res.286: designating July 26, 2019, as “United States Intelligence Professionals Day”.

Passed H.R.3253: to provide for certain extensions with respect to the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes with a Blunt substitute amendment.

Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business S.2258, to provide anti-retaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers. (Grassley)

Executive Business

Confirmed Executive Calendar #125 – Joseph V. Cuffari, of Arizona, to be Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security.