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No ROLL CALL VOTES LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Adopted S.Res.359, commending Alan S. Frumin on his service to the U.S. Senate. Discharged the Judiciary Committee and adopted S.Res.286, recognizing May 16, 2012, as Hereditary Angioedema Awareness Day and expressing the sense of the Senate that more research and treatments are needed for Hereditary Angioedema with an…
As GOP Continues to Wage Prolonged, Partisan Battles, American People are Turning Away From Republican Party Republicans Would Do Well to Listen to American People and Work With Democrats to Get Things Done GOP Poll “House Republican Poll Ratings Have Plunged Over The Past Year”: “Long, drawn-out skirmishes over the debt ceiling, the supercommittee…
(Senate Budget Committee release – Sen. Kent Conrad, Chairman) “While CBO’s report shows a lower deficit in 2012, it also demonstrates that we must do much more to put the nation’s long-term budget outlook on a sustainable path. The deficit reduction included in last summer’s Budget Control Act cannot be the end of the story.…
Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the retirement of Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin. Senator Reid also welcomed new Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who will be the first woman to serve in the role. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: For a few weeks in…
Convenes: 10:00am Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 11:30am with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each with the Majority controlling the first half and the Republicans controlling the final half Following morning business, the Senate will begin consideration of Calendar #301,…
ROLL CALL VOTE 1) Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.2038, the STOCK Act; Invoked: 93-2 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS Passed S.1236, the Border Tunnel Prevention Act. Adopted S.Res.357, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mill Springs (January 19, 1862). Adopted S.Res.358, expressing support for the designation of January 28,…
The Senate is in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. There will be no further roll call votes tonight.
5:30pm the Senate began a roll call vote on the motion to proceed to S.2038, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act. Invoked: 93-2
The STOCK Act Strengthens Disclosure Laws, Increases Transparency and Ensures that Members of Congress Play By The Same Rules as Everyone Else Legislation Set to Receive Key Vote This Evening in U.S. Senate Washington, DC—Today, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Jon Tester (D-MT) urged support for the STOCK Act, which…
As Lee, Wicker Plan Reprisals, GOP Senators Shun Fight as ‘Not Effective Strategy’, ‘Not Astute Thing To Do’ Top Senate Republicans Worried Potential Boycott of Cordray Hearing Will ‘Reflect Badly On Them’ GOP DIVIDED OVER PLANS BY LEE, WICKER TO CONTINUE BATTLING CORDRAY NOMINATION SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA): “The caucus is still divided on what…