the Senate ~~ CONGRESS 11/22~~ the House

The Senate will convene at 2:00pm on Monday, December 9, 2013.

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 4:00pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of S.1197, the National Defense Authorization to allow the Chairman and Ranking Member to provide a status update on the bill.

At 5:00pm, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider Executive Calendar #327, the nomination of Patricia Ann Millett, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, post-cloture. There will be up to 30 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled in the usual form. At 5:30pm, all post-cloture time will be expired and there will be a roll call vote on confirmation of the Millett nomination.

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Last Floor Action:
10:05:59 A.M. – The Speaker announced
that the House do now adjourn pursuant to S. Con. Res. 28. The next meeting is
scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on December 2, 2013.

Last Floor Action:
2:43:30 P.M. – The House adjourned
pursuant to a previous special order.

The next meeting is scheduled for 10:00
a.m. on November 22, 2013.

10:00:24 A.M.		The House convened, starting a new legislative day.
10:00:34 A.M.		The Speaker designated the Honorable Thomas E. Petri to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
10:00:54 A.M.		Today’s prayer was offered by Reverend John Robert Skeldon, Diocese of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
10:02:29 A.M.		The Chair announced that pursuant to section 2(a) of H. Res. 420, the Journal of the last day’s proceedings was approved.
10:02:32 A.M.		PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – The Chair led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
10:02:55 A.M.		The House received a message from the Clerk. Pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Clerk notified the House that she had received a message from the Secretary of the Senate on November 21, 2013 at 5:39 p.m. stating that that body had agreed to S. Con. Res. 28.
10:03:22 A.M.	S. Con. Res. 28	Considered as privileged matter. S. Con. Res. 28 — “Providing for a conditional adjournment or recess of the Senate and an adjournment of the House of Representatives.”
10:04:41 A.M.	S. Con. Res. 28	On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.
10:04:46 A.M.	S. Con. Res. 28	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
10:05:59 A.M.		The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn pursuant to S. Con. Res. 28. The next meeting is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on December 2, 2013.