[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 83 (Monday, May 15, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S2924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 55, Terry Branstad to be Ambassador to the 
People's Republic of China.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the 
motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the 
nomination.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Terry Branstad, of Iowa, to be 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to the People's Republic of China.