[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 217 (Thursday, December 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to the consideration of the following nominations, en bloc, 
which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read the nominations of R. Nicholas Burns, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of 
the United States of America to the People's Republic of China; Ramin 
Toloui, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Economic and 
Business Affairs); and Rashad Hussain, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at 
Large for International Religious Freedom.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 10 minutes of debate, 
equally divided in the usual form.
  The Senator from New Jersey.