The Senate stands in adjournment until 9:30am on Thursday, May 9, 2013.

• Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for one hour with the Majority controlling the first half and the Republicans controlling the final half.
• Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of S.601, the Water Resources Development Act. We will continue to work through amendments to the bill. Senators will be notified when votes are scheduled.

The following amendments are pending to S.601, the Water Resources Development Act:

The following amendments have been considered to S.601:

• Coburn amendment #805 (Army Corps land/guns) Not Agreed to: 56-43 (60-vote threshold)
• Whitehouse amendment #803 (oceans) Agreed to: 68-31 (60-vote threshold)
• Boxer-Vitter substitute amendment #799 Agreed to by UC
• Brown amendment #813, as modified (Asian carp) Agreed to: 95-0
• Pryor amendment #801, as modified (farms) Agreed to by UC
• Pryor amendment #806 (work-in-kind) Agreed to by UC
• Inhofe amendment #835, with a modification to the instruction lines (rural water infrastructure projects) Agreed to by UC
• McCain amendment #833 (levee safety programs) Agreed to by UC
• Murray amendment #832 (cargo noncontainer) Agreed to by UC
• Senator Reid Murray unanimous consent that the Senate go to conference on the Budget resolution.Senator McConnell asked that the request be modified so that it not be in order for the Senate to consider a conference report that includes tax increases or reconciliation instructions to increase taxes or raise the debt ceiling.Senator Murray objected to modifying the request.

  Senator McConnell then objected to the original request.

• At 1:30pm today, the Senate will turn to Executive Session to consider the nominations of Shelly Decker Dick and Nelson Stephen Roman. Under the previous order, there will be up to 30 minutes for debate equally divided and controlled prior to votes on confirmation of the nominations. We expect to consider one by voice vote and the other by a roll call vote, but Republicans have not indicated which one will require the roll call vote.Up to 2 roll call votes at approximately 2:00pm:
  • Confirmation of Executive Calendar #39, the nomination of Shelly Decker Dick, of Louisiana, to be a District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana; and
  • Confirmation of Executive Calendar #41, the nomination of Nelson Stephen Roman, of New York, to be District Judge for the Southern District of New York

  Upon disposition of the nominations, the Senate will resume consideration of S.601, Water Resources Development Act. As a reminder, we reached an agreement yesterday that the next amendment in order is the Blunt amendment #800 (resilient construction techniques for extreme weather). The managers of the bill are working on moving the bill forward.

• WRAP UP
• ROLL CALL VOTES1)      Confirmation of Executive Calendar #41, the nomination of Nelson Stephen Roman, of New York, to be District Judge for the Southern District of New York Confirmed: 97-0

  LEGISLATIVE ITEMS

  Passed H.R.360, to award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

  Adopted S.Res.136, recognizing the 60^th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice and the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1953, and congratulating Park Geun-Hye on her election to the Presidency of the Republic of Korea.

  Adopted S.Res.137, designating May 2013 as “Older Americans Month”.

  Adopted S.Res.138, Congratulating the students, parents, teachers, and administration of charter schools across the United States for their ongoing contributions to education, and supporting the ideals and goals of the 14^th annual National Charter Schools Week, to be celebrated the week of May 5 through May 11, 2013.

  EXECUTIVE ITEMS

  Confirmed Executive Calendar #39, the nomination of Shelly Decker Dick, of Louisiana, to be a District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana by voice vote.

This afternoon Senator Reid filed cloture on S.601, Water Resources Development Act of 2013.

The filing deadline for first degree amendments is 4:00pm on Monday, May 13. If your senator have a germane first degree amendment and would like to preserve the right to offer, please send a signed copy of the amendment to the cloakroom prior to the deadline so that we may file it at the desk for you. If you have already filed, there is no need to re-file.

The cloture vote will occur at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, May 14.

 The managers of the bill will work over the weekend on an agreement to complete action of the WRDA bill. If an agreement can be reached, we would seek to vitiate the cloture vote.

• At a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, there will be up to 60 minutes for debate equally divided and controlled prior to a vote on confirmation of Executive Calendar #40, the nomination of William H. Orrick, III, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California.
   

   

The Senate reached the following agreement to consider the Moniz nomination. At a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, the Senate will consider Executive Calendar #91, the nomination of Ernest J. Moniz, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Energy. There will be up to 3 hours for debate equally divided prior to a vote on confirmation of the nomination.

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