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ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #59, Sarah "Sally" Jewell, of WA, to be Secretary of the Interior; Confirmed: 87-11 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.95, designating April 18, 2013, as National Lineman Appreciation Day. Completed the Rule 14 process of S.691, a bill to...

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #14, the nomination of Patty Shwartz, of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit; Confirmed: 64-34 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Discharged the Foreign Relations committee and adopted S.Res.77, expressing the sense of Congress...

No ROLL CALL VOTES   LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.93, designating April 4, 2013, as "National Association of Junior Auxiliaries Day". Discharged the Rules committee and adopted S.Con.Res.10: Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitors Center for an event to celebrate the...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Ayotte amendment #158 (prohibits budget with revenue increase while unemployment is above 5.5%); Not Agreed To: 45-54 2)      Cruz amendment #202 (reserve fund to repeal PPACA and Education reconciliation) Not Agreed to: 45-54 3)      Murray amendment #439 (side by side to...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Coburn amendment #69 (prohibits Urban Area Security Initiative Grants not improving homeland security); Not Agreed To: 48-51 (60 affirmative-vote threshold) 2)      Coburn amendment #93 (transfers appropriations from National Heritage Partnership Program to fund White House...

No ROLL CALL VOTES LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.81, commemorating March 19, 2013, as the 40th anniversary of National Ag Day. No EXECUTIVE ITEMS

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Motion to invoke cloture on the Mikulski-Shelby substitute amendment #26, as modified, to H.R.933, the continuing appropriations bill; Invoked: 63-35 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Discharged the Judiciary committee and adopted S.Res.66, A resolution designating the first week of April...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Harkin amendment #53 (Labor-HHS) to H.R.933, the continuing appropriations bill; Not Agreed to: 54-45 (60 affirmative-vote threshold) 2)      Coburn amendment #66 (hiring freeze for federal employees) to H.R.933; Not Agreed to: 45-54 (60 affirmative-vote...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Cruz amendment #30 (defund the Affordable Care Act) to H.R.933, the continuing appropriations bill; Not Agreed to: 45-52 2)      McCain amendment #33 (Guam) Not Tabled: 48-50 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.76, Designating room S-126 of the United States Capitol as the...

No ROLL CALL VOTES No LEGISLATIVE ITEMS No EXECUTIVE ITEMS

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #9 Richard Gary Taranto, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit; Confirmed: 91-0 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Discharged the Environment and Public Works Committee and Passed S.166, A bill to designate the new Interstate...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Executive Calendar #43, John Owen Brennan, of Virginia, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Invoked: 81-16 2)      Confirmation of the Brennan nomination; Confirmed: 63-34 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.71,...

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #13, Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia District; Not Invoked: 51-41 No LEGISLATIVE ITEMS No EXECUTIVE ITEMS

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Paul amendment #25 (strike funding for National Security Working Group) to S.Res.64, an original resolution authorizing expenditures by committees of the Senate for the period March 1, 2013, through September 30, 2013; Not Agreed to: 44-55 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.64,...

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #16, the nomination of Katherine Polk Failla, of NY, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York; Confirmed: 91-0 No LEGISLATIVE ITEMS EXECUTIVE ITEMS Confirmed Executive Calendar #15, the nomination of Pamela Ki...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Motion to invoke cloture on the McConnell motion to proceed to S.16, to provide for a sequester replacement; Not Invoked: 38-62 2)      Motion to invoke cloture on the Reid motion to proceed to S.388, the American Family Economic Protection Act; Not Invoked: 51-49 No...

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #26, Jacob J. Lew, of New York, to be Secretary of the Treasury; Confirmed: 71-26 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Passed H.R.307, a bill to reauthorize certain programs under the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with...

ROLL CALL VOTES 1)      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #10, the nomination of Charles Timothy Hagel, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of Defense, upon reconsideration; Invoked: 71-27 2)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #10, the nomination of Charles Timothy Hagel, of Nebraska, to...

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #7, Robert E. Bacharach, of Oklahoma, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit; Confirmed: 93-0 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Passed S.298, A bill to prevent nuclear proliferation in North Korea, and for other purposes with...

ROLL CALL VOTE 1)      Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #10, the nomination of Charles Timothy Hagel, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of Defense; Not Invoked: 58-40-1 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Discharged the Judiciary committee and adopted S.Res.21, designating February 14, 2013, as "National...