Thursday in Congress … oh wait the Republican led House is gone! – the Senate


  • Senate Convenes at  9:30amET June 30, 2011
  • Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning
    business until 12:00pm with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes
    each with the time equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or
    their designees, with the Majority controlling the first hour and the
    Republicans controlling the second hour.
  • Following morning business, the Senate will be in Executive Session to
    consider Calendar # 197, the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of New Hampshire,
    to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with two hours for debate
    equally divided in the usual form.
  • Upon the use or yielding back of time (at approximately 2pm), the Senate
    will conduct a roll call voteon confirmation of the Petraeus nomination.At approximately 2:00pm today, the Senate will conduct a roll call vote on
    confirmation of Executive Calendar #197, the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of
    New Hampshire, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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The next meeting in the House is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on July 1, 2011.