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Yes. It was to call up Executive Calendar Nos. 656 and 657, which are the nominations of Judge Albert Diaz and Judge James Wynn to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. As the distinguished Senator from Arizona will recall…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Jordan DiMaggio and David Williams of Senator Bingaman's office be given the privileges of the floor for today, April 20, 2010. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…
I am told a Senator is coming to make an objection, so I will withhold. While we are waiting for a Republican Senator to come and object to these nominees, they came out of the Judiciary Committee back in January. They were voted out of…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session, and notwithstanding rule XXII, the Senate proceed to Executive Calendar Nos. 656 and 657; that the nominations be confirmed en bloc; that the motions to…
Mr. President, I wish to talk for a minute about nominations and holds. The Senate's Executive Calendar contains the names of those individuals whom President Obama has nominated to serve in his administration, and those positions require…
Mr. President, let me first thank the Senator from Oregon for his remarks. He has brought great passion for this issue to the Senate. He serves with distinction on the Banking Committee. I couldn't agree with him more that the spectacle of…
Mr. President, I call up Executive Calendar No. 702, the nomination of Judge D. Price Marshall to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, a district court nominee who has been held up and filibustered. This…
Mr. President, I appreciate the distinguished Senator's objection. We do have 101 nominees on the Executive Calendar. The objections have holds which are secret. They are holding up people, as I said, for an average of 106 days. While it…
So, there's no distinction between a for-profit insurance company and a not-for-profit insurance company in the way they operate.
It can be an informative tool for policymakers, like yourself and State legislatures, to understand what is happening in the health insurance marketplace.
Well, frankly, we're having a discussion about firms that go to the Street and say, 'Our strategy is, we're going to deny claims and raise premiums above medical inflation.'
I think, going forward, we have to be careful not only about reviewing the ratings, but we also have to be very careful about having a consistent set of reports between regulators and financial statements.
Mr. President, I rise today in support of the nomination of Lael Brainard to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. I know Lael personally. She is a renowned expert in international economics, a dedicated public…
I ask Congress to require that States and districts conduct regular evaluations on the impact of federally funded professional development.
We took the approach that unless we stabilize the entire system, put a floor in, and then begin to see them sort of work out their problems, we were going to collapse.
We have 12.7 percent unemployment, and as I said in a previous meeting, we have houses that are under water.