Wrap Up for Thursday, January 9, 2020

Roll Call Votes

1.      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #554, Paul J. Ray, of Tennessee, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; invoked: 50-45.

2.      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #554, Paul J. Ray, of Tennessee, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; confirmed: 50-44.

Legislative Business

By voice vote, passed Calendar #289, S.2629, United States Public Health Service Modernization Act of 2019

By voice vote, passed H.R. 263, to rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman Lester Wolff Oyster Bay Wildlife Refuge.

Passed S.J.Res.265, providing for the reappointment of John Fahey as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Passed S.J.Res.266, providing for the appointment of Denise O’Leary as a citizen of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Passed S.J.Res.267, providing for the reappointment of Risa Lavizzo-Mourney as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

By voice vote, passed H.R. 925, North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act, w/ Barrasso amdts

Passed S. 1982, Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, w/Sullivan substitute amdt

Executive Business

Confirmed the following nominations by voice vote:

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION

Executive Calendar #541, Cynthia L. Attwood, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for a term expiring April 27, 2025.  (Reappointment)

Executive Calendar #542, Amanda Wood Laihow, of Maine, to be a Member of Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for the remainder of a term expiring April 27, 2023.

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

Executive Calendar #552, Crosby Kemper III, of Missouri, to be Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a term of four years.