[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 74 (Thursday, May 15, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3055-S3056]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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 NOMINATION OF ROSEMARY MARQUEZ TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR 
                        THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Cloture having been invoked, the clerk will 
report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Rosemary Marquez, of 
Arizona, to be United States Judge for the District of Arizona.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided.
  The Senator from Oregon.
  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, to use our time, my colleague from Indiana 
spoke earlier as though the cloture vote on the extenders determines 
whether the Senate will have any amendments to the extenders bill. That 
is not the case. A ``yes'' vote today is a vote to move the debate 
forward.
  In that vein I simply want to announce that if cloture is invoked, I 
would be happy to work with Senator Hatch and the two leaders to 
develop

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an agreed-upon list of amendments, narrowly related to the bill that 
the Finance Committee did in its consideration of the bill in the 
committee.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I certainly want to thank my good 
friend, the chairman of the Finance Committee, for his observation. He 
is moving in the right direction. As everyone is clearly aware, the 
issue of not allowing amendments is a highly sensitive matter. The 
Senate has been changed dramatically in recent years.
  The time to have a negotiation over amendments is before cloture is 
invoked, not after. If there is an indication on the other side that we 
are willing to have that negotiation, the time to do it is now because 
our experience postcloture with the ability to offer amendments has not 
been good, to put it mildly.
  So I think the chairman of the Finance Committee is headed in the 
right direction. The timing is a little off. We would like to have this 
negotiation over amendments before cloture is invoked on the bill.

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