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I have a cloture motion at the desk. I ask that it be reported. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The assistant legislative clerk read as…
Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 17, S. 493. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 17, (S. 493), a bill to reauthorize…
There will be no further rollcall votes this week. We will have some votes Monday night. Everyone should be aware of that. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business, with Senators allowed to speak for up 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
Mr. President, it is time once again for us to get down to business. Yesterday's budget votes didn't bring us any closer to a conclusion, but it did bring to our minds a lesson, and it does that very clearly. That lesson is that one party…
As a result of the agreement just entered, there will be a vote on confirmation of the Cogburn nomination at 3 p.m. today. Further, the Senate Small Business Committee reported S. 493, the SBIR and STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011. They…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 41; that the nomination be confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, there be no intervening…
Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:02 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 10…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to the measure be…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 97. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to the measure be…
Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Inouye, I send to the desk amendment No. 149. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid], for Mr. Inouye, proposes an…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 519 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…
Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 149. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that on Thursday, March 10, at 2:15 p.m., the Senate proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 7; that there be 15 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form; that upon the use or…
Madam President, on the news on the way to work this morning, I heard one Republican Senator who is part of the Republican leadership say he thought all Republicans would vote for H.R. 1, this job-killing--that isn't what he said, it is…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until Thursday, March 10, at 10 a.m.; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning…
Mr. President, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the Senate will vote on confirmation of the nomination of Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr., of North Carolina, to be a U.S. District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina. ____________________