The Senate will convene at 2:00pm on Monday, October 28, 2013.

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until ­­­4:30pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

Following morning business, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider Executive Calendar #344, the nomination of Richard F. Griffin, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board for a term of four years.  There will be up to one hour 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 Griffin nomination.

This afternoon Senator Reid filed cloture on the following nominations:

–          Executive Calendar #53, Alan Estevez, of the District of Columbia, to be Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense;

–          Executive Calendar #307, Katherine Archuleta, of Colorado, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management;

–          Executive Calendar #242, Thomas Wheeler, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission;

–          Executive Calendar #63, Jacob Lew, of New York, to be the United States Governor to the following International Banks:

–          International Monetary Fund,

–          International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

–          Inter-American Development Bank, and

–          European Bank for Reconstruction;

–          Executive Calendar #209, Melvin L. Watt, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Federal Housing Agency;

–          Executive Calendar #327, Patricia Millett, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.

If cloture is invoked on any of these nominations (60-vote threshold), there would be up to 8 hours for debate on each of the nominations except for the Millett nomination, which would have up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate. Unless an agreement can be reached, the first cloture vote would occur one hour after the Senate convenes on Wednesday, October 30.

The cloture vote on the Griffin nomination to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has been postponed to occur tomorrow, Tuesday, October 29, at time to be determined by the Majority Leader, following consultation with the Republican Leader.

The Senate is in a period of morning business until 7:00pm for debate only.

There will be no roll call votes tonight.

WRAP UP

No ROLL CALL VOTES

LEGISLATIVE ITEMS

Passed S.893, a bill to provide for an increase effective December 1, 2013, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

Adopted S.Res.275, designating October 29, 2013, as “National Technological Innovation Day” to recognize that technological innovation is critical to the United States economy and commemorating the contributions of innovation to prosperity in the United States and abroad.

Began the Rule 14 process of S.1592, the Delay Until Fully Functional Act. (Rubio)

No EXECUTIVE ITEMS

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Last Floor Action:
7:05:49 P.M. – ONE MINUTE SPEECHES – The
House proceeded with further one minute speeches.

Last Floor Action:
12:02:37 P.M. – The Speaker announced
that the House do now adjourn pursuant to a previous special order.

The next
meeting is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on October 28, 2013.

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