the Senate off until 2/24 ~~ CONGRESS 2/21 ~~ the House

The Senate will convene at 2:00pm on Monday, February 24, 2014.

Following the prayer and pledge, Senator King will be recognized to deliver Washington’s Farewell Address.

Upon conclusion of the reading, the Majority Leader will be recognized and then the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:00pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

On Wednesday, February 12^th, cloture was filed on the following items in the order listed:

– Executive Calendar #564 Jeffrey Alker Meyer -to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut

– Executive Calendar #564 #570 James Maxwell Moody, Jr. – to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas

– Executive Calendar #564 #566 James Donato – to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California

– Executive Calendar #564 #567 Beth Labson Freeman – to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California and

– Motion to proceed to S.1982, the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014.

At 5:00pm on Monday, February 24^th, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider Executive Calendar #564, the nomination of Jeffrey Alker Meyer to be US District Judge for the District of Connecticut with up to 30 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled in the usual form. Upon the use or yielding back of time (at approximately 5:30pm), there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Meyer nomination.

If cloture is invoked on the Meyer nomination, there would be up to 2 hours for post-cloture debate. Upon the use or yielding back of time, the Senate would proceed to a vote confirmation of the nomination, then proceed to the next cloture vote and repeat the process for the remaining nominations in the list above. Following disposition of the Freeman nomination, there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S.1982.

While up to 9 roll call votes (5 cloture votes and 4 confirmation votes) are possible Monday evening, we anticipate that after three votes, the remaining will resume sometime Tuesday morning.

Likely votes Monday at 5:30pm:

– Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #564 Jeffrey Alker Meyer -to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut

(up to 2 hours of equally divided debate, likely one hour)

– Confirmation of Meyer nomination

– Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #564 #570 James Maxwell Moody, Jr. – to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

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Last Floor Action:2/21
11:05:02 A.M. – The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn pursuant to section 2(b) of H. Res. 475.

The next meeting is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on February 25, 2014.

11:00:18 A.M.		The House convened, starting a new legislative day.
11:00:23 A.M.		The Speaker designated the Honorable Andy Harris to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
11:00:52 A.M.		Today’s prayer was offered by Reverend Gene Hemrick, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
11:02:00 A.M.		The Chair announced that pursuant to section 2(a) of H. Res. 475, the Journal of the last day’s proceedings was approved.
11:02:10 A.M.		PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – The Chair led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
11:02:10 A.M.		The House received a communication from the Honorable Allyson Y. Schwartz. Ms. Schwartz submitted her resignation from the Committee on the Budget. The resignation was accepted without objection.
11:03:25 A.M.		The House received a communication from The Honorable Bill Shuster, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Mr. Shuster notified the House that on February 11, 2014, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure met in open session to consider resolutions to authorize 17 lease prospectuses included in the General Services Administration’s FY2014 Capital Investment and Leasing Programs and transmitted copies of the adopted resolutions.
11:05:02 A.M.		The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn pursuant to section 2(b) of H. Res. 475. The next meeting is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on February 25, 2014.