[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 9, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S582]
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                            Senate Business

  Mr. President, finally, on Senate business, concerning the activity 
on the floor today, the Senate is going to have another busy workday as 
we continue confirming Presidential nominations to the administration 
and onto the Federal bench.
  Today, three rollcall votes are scheduled on the nominations of both 
the head of the U.S. International Development Finance Corp and the 
President's pick for Assistant Secretary of the Army.
  But tonight we are very likely to add additional rollcall votes to 
complete the confirmation of several pending nominations. These votes 
will likely take us into the early evening, but they are necessary in 
order to confirm nominees.
  I will add that until this past year, these nominees almost always 
have been approved through unanimous consent. Unfortunately, a few 
people on the other side are holding it up and making us vote on each 
of these, but vote we must.
  Once again, though, to move things along, I ask my colleagues to cast 
their votes quickly tonight, to remain in their seats or near the floor 
as much as possible, and to be flexible in order to help move things 
along as quickly as possible on the Senate floor, as we did last week.
  We did a good job voting efficiently last week despite the large 
number of votes. So I ask everyone to continue at that pace tonight as 
needed.