Wrap Up for Tuesday, May 25, 2021

 Roll Call Votes

1.      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #117, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; confirmed: 55-44.

2.      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #124, Kristen M. Clarke, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General; invoked: 51-48.

3.      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #124, Kristen M. Clarke, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General; confirmed: 51-48.

4.      Wyden amendment #1975 (TRIPS) [60 vote threshold]; not agreed to 50-49.

5.      Crapo amendment #1565 (TRIPS) [60 vote threshold]; not agreed to: 53-46.

6.      Lee amendment #1891 (Stem Cell research) [60 vote threshold]; not agreed to: 48-51.

Legislative Business

Adopted S.Res.234: recognizing the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Adopted S.Res.235: National MPS Awareness Day.

Adopted S.Res.236: Legal Counsel.

Agreed to the following amendments to S.1260 by voice vote:

1.      Paul amendment #2003 (NIH in China)

2.      Ernst amendment #1507 (Wuhan lab)

3.      Daines amendment #1787 (IP and China)

No Executive Business