Wrap Up for Thursday, July 23, 2020

Roll Call Votes

1.      Inhofe substitute amendment #2301, as amended; agreed to: 88-12.

2.      Motion to invoke cloture on S.4049, NDAA, as amended; invoked: 86-14.

3.      Passage of S.4049, NDAA, as amended; passed: 86-14.

4.      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #643, William Scott Hardy, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania; invoked: 60-32.

Legislative Business

Passed S.3841, to protect 2020 recovery rebates for individuals from assignment or garnishment, and for other purposes.

(An agreement has been reached that should the Senate receive from the House of Representatives a bill, the text of which is identical to that of S.3841, the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration, the bill be considered read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, and S.3841 be indefinitely postponed.)

Executive Business

By voice vote, confirmed the following:

THE JUDICIARY

Executive Calendar #567 – Grant C. Jaquith, of New York, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Executive Calendar #629 – Scott J. Laurer, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims