[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 24, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Samuel 
Dale Brownback, of Kansas, to be Ambassador at Large for International 
Religious Freedom.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 
up to 15 minutes as in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.