William H. Frist

I think this 4-week period does demonstrate the Senate responding to the American people and what they expect, the fact that this week we are moving forward on judges, which people know has been very contentious over the last several…

I understand that all time will have been yielded back and, therefore, we will be starting the vote at 4:55 sharp. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk…

I do wish to comment just a bit further on energy, really as a prelude to what we will be spending a lot of time on beginning hopefully Monday and then spending the course of that week into the next week, and that is the issue surrounding…

this morning we will return to the nomination of William Pryor to be a judge of the Eleventh Circuit. Yesterday, cloture was invoked by a vote of 76 to 32, and we will have the vote on the Pryor nomination at 4 p.m. today. Following that…

pursuant to the order of May 24, I ask unanimous consent that at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, June 13, the Senate proceed to the Griffith nomination as provided under the order; provided further that following the use or yielding back of time, the…

before the recess, the Senate confirmed Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Yesterday, we confirmed Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit. And earlier today, William Pryor was confirmed to serve on the Eleventh Circuit…

we will start voting about 4. If I can start in a couple minutes, that will be good.

On Monday, the Senate will consider the Griffith nomination to the D.C. Circuit. There will be up to 4 hours of debate on the nomination on Monday afternoon. Then we will set the nomination aside with a confirmation vote occurring on…

today we will vote on the confirmation of Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. We are on a good path, a constructive, very positive path for getting up-or-down votes for these judicial nominees, and we…

in the last hour or so we made huge progress on an issue that has been very difficult for this body over the last 3 to 4 weeks, in fact I would say difficult for the last 2\1/ 2\ years. The progress we have made is that for these nominees…

That is correct. The vote will be at approximately 6 o'clock instead of the usual 5 o'clock on Monday. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will report Executive Calendar No. 100. The legislative clerk read the…

today we will return to executive session for the final statements regarding the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown. We have the up-or-down vote on her nomination scheduled for 5 p.m. today. And immediately following her vote, under…

as we try to complete the business we have been addressing over the last several weeks, the one remaining item we have not really settled on is the Bolton nomination. I filed a motion to reconsider that vote. There are a lot of ongoing…

in a few moments, we will vote on the confirmation of Justice Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Justice Brown is a highly qualified nominee. She is kind. She is smart. She is thoughtful. She has…

this morning we will resume the debate on Executive Calendar No. 72, the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to be a U.S. circuit judge for the DC Circuit. The cloture vote is scheduled for noon today. We will have a debate equally divided…

on Wednesday, I will have the honor of meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan here in the Capitol. We will be meeting to discuss the importance of the United States-Turkish relationship and the ways in which we can…

as a reminder to our colleagues, the cloture vote on the Brown nomination is scheduled for noon tomorrow. I hope and expect that cloture will be invoked at that time and that we will be able to move quickly to an up-or-down vote on her…

I welcome our colleagues back from the Memorial Day recess. I know everybody enjoyed spending time with family and friends and constituents, reconnecting with the people we serve. It is always a very busy time during a recess period, and…

I have just a few announcements and then I will have a short statement. We will have a full day of debate today on the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown. To allow for an orderly debate, I now ask unanimous consent that following the…

this Sunday the people of Lebanon will go to the polls to vote in their first truly free election in three decades. Since 1990, Lebanon has been occupied by Syrian forces, but this spring the people of Lebanon made history. On March 8…

on another issue, an issue that was discussed by several of my colleagues, most notably Senator Stevens, our distinguished colleague from Alaska, the President pro tempore, I rise to honor now a very special day in the life of one of our…

The Senator from Maine, the distinguished chair of the Small Business Committee, is correct that while the vast majority of the Highway bill does not concern the Small Business Act or the Small Business Administration, the Highway bill…

on Monday, June 6, the Senate will return from the Memorial Day recess and resume consideration of the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown for the DC Circuit. There will be no rollcall votes on June 6, but Senators are encouraged to come to…

we are going to be out in just a couple minutes, but I want to take the opportunity, before closing, to thank the pages, who are sitting here before me, for all the tremendous work they do. It is very rare that we have the opportunity to…

We will be going on recess here for about 8 days, a much- needed recess for many people. A recess means we, for the most part, go back to our home States and spend time with people. So we all look forward to that opportunity to get back…