Schedule for Tuesday, April 26, 2022
The Senate
stands adjourned until 10:00am on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
Following Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session and resume consideration of Executive Calendar #808 Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, post-cloture.
The Senate will recess from 12:30pm until 2:15pm to allow for the weekly caucus meetings.
At approximately 2:15pm, the Senate will vote on confirmation of the Brainard nomination. Unless an agreement is reached, following disposition of the nomination, the Senate would immediately vote on cloture on the Cook nomination (Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System). We hope to have this cloture vote later Tuesday afternoon.
Additional roll call votes are expected during Tuesday’s session in relation to the pending nominations. As early as Tuesday’s session, the Senate may consider S.J.Res.41, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Health and Human Services relating to “Ensuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services.”
Senators will be notified as additional votes are scheduled.
Cloture has been filed on the following nominations:
1. Executive Calendar #808 Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2. Executive Calendar #844 Lisa DeNell Cook, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
3. Executive Calendar #848 Alvaro M. Bedoya, of Maryland, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner
4. Executive Calendar #800 Sherilyn Peace Garnett, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California
5. Executive Calendar #865 Julia Ruth Gordon, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
6. Executive Calendar #670 Lisa M. Gomez, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor
Tuesday, April 26th at approx. 2:15pm – at least one roll call vote:
1. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #808 Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
