7:52 p.m. Senate adjourns until 2:15 p.m on Thursday November 13th.

7:50 p.m. Senator Whitehouse wraps up the day in the Senate.  Items passed by UC: S Res 576, “National Day of Writing.”  HR 4 has its first reading.  There will be 3 roll call votes at 2:30pm on Thursday, on confirmation of the Moss and May nominations and cloture on the Child Development Block Grant bill.

7:25 p.m. Senator Whitehouse spoke for the 79th time to discuss climate change.

7:19 p.m. Senator Toomey joined a colloquy with Senator Alexander on the background check proposals.

7:03 p.m. Senator Alexander spoke against the Manchin/Toomey proposal.

6:43 p.m. Senator Toomey continued on the background check bill.

6:42 p.m Senator Harkin objected.

6:41 p.m.  Senator Toomey asked UC to take up S. 1086, Child Development Block Grant bill and HR 2083, Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act.

6:36 p.m. Senator Manchin began a colloquy with Senator Toomey on background checks for school employees.

6:35 p.m. Senate invoked cloture on the May nomination, 67-30.

6:08 p.m. Senate began a cloture vote on the nomination of Leigh Martin May, to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia

6:07 p.m. Senate invoked cloture on the Moss nomination 53-45.

5:43 p.m. Senate began a cloture vote on the nomination of Randolph Moss to be a US District Judge for the District of Columbia.

5:42 p.m. UC agreement agreed to.

5:39 p.m. Senator Cornyn amended UC to include that if the Senate passes S.2280, and has received from the House a bill identical to S.2280, it be passed with no intervening action.

5:37 p.m. Senator Landrieu offered a UC that on Tuesday the 18th, the Senate debate for six hours S. 2280, the Keystone Pipeline bill.  No amendments in order, bill subject to 60 vote threshold.

5:26 p.m. ML Reid filed cloture on the following:

1. Nomination of Leslie Abrams to be US District Judge for the middle district of Georgia.

2. Nomination of Mark Cohen to be US District Judge for the northern district of Georgia.

3. Nomination of Eleanor Ross to be US District Judge for the northern district of Georgia.

4. S. 2685, the “USA Freedom Act.”

5:06 p.m. Senator Isakson spoke in favor of the May nomination.

4:42 p.m. Senator Coburn spoke on the Taxpayers rights amendment.

4:23 p.m. Senator Nelson spoke on the issue of exploding airbags.

4:10 p.m. Senator Landrieu again spoke on Keystone XL pipeline.

4:06 p.m. Senator Schatz spoke on the climate change agreement with China.

3:57 p.m. Senator Brown spoke on the Affordable Care Act.

3:50 p.m. Senator Inhofe spoke about China, coal and emissions.

3:35 p.m. Senator Alexander spoke in favor of the Childcare Development block grant.

3:17 p.m. Senator Heitkamp spoke in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline.

2:49 p.m. Senator Tester spoke in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline.

2:44 p.m. Senator Manchin spoke in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline.

2:27 p.m. Senator Landrieu spoke on bipartisanship and the Keystone XL pipeline.

2:03 p.m.  Majority Leader Reid spoke on the change in leadership and bipartisanship.

2:09 p.m.  Senator McConnell spoke on new Republican leadership.

2:11 p.m. Senator Cornyn spoke on new Republican leadership, unemployment, budget and bipartisanship.

The Senate will convene at 2:00 p.m. and proceed to Morning Business. The first of two roll-call votes will begin at 5:30 p.m. Votes will be on whether to invoke cloture on these nominations:

o    Randolph D. Moss to be a United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia

o    Leigh Martin May to be United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia

NOTE: Here follow highlights of the Senate’s plans for Thursday, November 13, 2014:

 Members of both parties will fill leadership posts for the 114^th Congress.

• Democrats will meet to elect their leaders at 9 a.m. in the Old Senate Chamber.
• Republicans will meet for elections at 9:30 a.m. in the Mansfield Room.
• Party policy luncheons will begin at 12:30 p.m. Democrats will meet in the Mansfield Room, Republicans in the LBJ Room.
• Republican leaders will be available to reporters at 2 p.m. at the Ohio Clock stakeout position.
• If cloture has been invoked on the Moss and May nominations on Wednesday, the Senate will proceed to confirmation votes at about 2:15 p.m. Thursday.
• Following disposition of the Moss and May nominations, the Senate will immediately proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2013 (S. 1086).