The Senate will meet on the following dates and times for pro-forma sessions only with no business conducted:
– Friday, August 5th at 10:00am,
– Tuesday, August 9th at 11:00am,
– Friday, August 12th at 12:00pm,
– Tuesday, August 16th at 11:00am,
– Friday, August 19th at 10:00am,
– Tuesday, August 23rd at 2:30pm,
– Friday, August 26th at 11:15am,
– Tuesday, August 30th at 10:00am,
– Friday, September 2nd at 10:00am;
When the Senate convenes at 10:00am on Friday, September 2nd, it will adjourn until 2:00pm on September 6, 2011. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in morning business until 5:00pm with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.
Following morning business, the Senate will be in Executive Session to consider Calendar #109, Bernice Bouie Donald, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 6th Circuit with 30 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled between Senators Leahy and Grassley.
The next roll call votes will be at 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 6th. The first roll call vote will be on confirmation of the Donald nomination. The 2nd will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R.1249, the Patent Reform bill
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CURRENT HOUSE FLOOR PROCEEDINGS
LEGISLATIVE DAY OF AUGUST 16, 2011
112TH CONGRESS – FIRST SESSION
11:34 A.M. – The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of H.Res. 375. The next meeting is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on August 19, 2011.
11:33 A.M. – The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification of the continuance of the national emergency with respect to the lapse of the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended. – referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 112-49).
NOT DISPENSING WITH LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS – Pursuant to section 4 of H.Res. 375, the Chair announced that legislative business would not be dispensed with on this day.
11:32 A.M. – PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG – The Chair led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.JOURNAL APPROVED – The Chair announced that pursuant to section 5 of H.Res. 375, the Journal of the last days’s proceedings was approved.
11:30 A.M. – Today’s prayer was offered by Reverend Susan Kirlin-Hackett, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Lake Stevens, WashingtonThe Speaker designated the Honorable Jim Jordan to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
The House convened, starting a new legislative day.
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