[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that with 
respect to the previous order, the remaining nominations be considered 
en bloc.
  I further ask that the mandatory quorum call with respect to the 
cloture vote on the Thomas nomination be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the 
nominations of Jack A. Markell, of Delaware, to be Representative of 
the United States of America to the Organization for Economic 
Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador; Bathsheba 
Nell Crocker, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the 
United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other 
International Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador; 
Mark Gitenstein, of Washington, to be Representative of the United 
States of America to the European Union, with the Rank and status of 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Denise Campbell Bauer, of 
California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the French Republic, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Principality of Monaco; Claire D. Cronin, of Massachusetts, to be 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to Ireland; Marcela Escobari, of Massachusetts, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development; Marc Evans Knapper, of California, a Career Member of the 
Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Rufus Gifford, of Massachusetts, to 
be Chief of Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service.
  The nominations were confirmed en bloc.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to 
reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Now, Madam President, it has been a long day of voting. 
We are not quite done yet, but we are close.
  At the end of the day, we will have invoked cloture on 2 circuit 
judges, confirmed 9 district court judges, confirmed 41 Ambassadors, 
and confirmed 5 other members of President Biden's team. It has been a 
long day but a good day's work. I thank my colleagues.

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