I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 809, Bisa Williams, of New Jersey, a…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 810, Raul Yzaguirre, of Maryland, to be…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 811, Theodore Sedgwick, of Virginia, to be…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 812, Robert Stephen Ford, of Maryland, a…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 824, Dana Katherine Bilyeu, of Nevada, to…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 832, David B. Fein, to be United States Attorney for the…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 830, Judith Anne Smith, of the District of…

Reserving the right to object, I am not sure it is a vacancy in the District of Connecticut at the U.S. Attorney's office. I think this is a replacement nomination. And I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 834, Clifton Timothy Massanelli, to be…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar No. 835, Paul Ward, to be United States…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, there are some nominations on whom the request has not been made. My colleague from Rhode Island has a number of judicial appointments. He will return to…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. I might note for the record that this nominee was voted out of committee by a vote of 15 to 4, with three Republican Senators supporting her in committee and four…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. On that nominee, the vote out of committee was 19 to 6--19 to 6. Five Republican colleagues supported this nominee and five Republican Senators opposed this nominee. So…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. I might note this was a voice vote in committee and Senator Sessions did raise concerns in committee. So there was not a tally vote. No one requested a rollcall vote on the nominee. It…

I object. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard. Mrs. McCASKILL. I should note that this is a nominee who--once again, it was a voice vote. Senator Coburn did indicate some concerns with this nominee at the committee level.

I have an appointment with the gentleman to have a discussion. Mrs. McCASKILL. We have now gone through the entire list, with the exception of about 10 judicial nominees on whom Senator Whitehouse will be making the requests. I was hopeful…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sanders). Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, as we have watched the debate the last 6 days on the financial regulation reform bill, I thought it would be interesting just to raise a few questions. The Congress--both the House and the Senate--created what was called the…