Floor Statements

Madam President, there is a cloture motion at the desk that I ask to be reported.

I now move, Madam President, to proceed to legislative session.

I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 840, Estevan R. Lopez to be Commissioner of Reclamation.

Madam President, there is a cloture motion at the desk, and I ask that it be reported.

I now move to proceed to legislative session.

Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 922, Marcus Jadotte to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

Mr. President, there is a cloture motion at the desk, and I ask the Chair to report it.

I move to proceed to legislative session.

I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 901, Jonathan Nicholas Stivers to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.

Mr. President, there is a cloture motion at the desk.

I now move to proceed to legislative session.

I ask unanimous consent that following the filing of cloture on executive calendar nominations--the list of nominations is at the desk, the last of which is the cloture motion on the Biggs nomination, Executive Calendar No. 1147--the Senate resume legislative session and the Senate proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 83; that if cloture is invoked, there be 2 minutes postcloture debate time remaining on the motion to concur; that upon the use or yielding back of time, the motion to concur with an amendment be withdrawn and the Senate then immediately proceed to vote on the motion to concur.

There will be some votes tonight. Everybody be patient. I appreciate very much everyone's patience. As I told some Senators a little while ago in both parties, what we have gone through over the last day or so I think is going to help us next year. I really mean that. I certainly hope so.

I now move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 735.

Mr. President, there is a cloture motion at the desk.

Mr. President, I now move to proceed to legislative session.

I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 553, Christopher Smith, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy.

Madam President, there is a cloture motion at the desk.

I now move to proceed to legislative session.

I move to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 1041, the nomination of Stephen Bough of Missouri.

There is a cloture motion at the desk, and I ask that it be reported.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that Senator Grassley be recognized for 5 minutes for debate only.

I now move to proceed to legislative session.

There is a cloture motion at the desk, and I ask that it be reported.