[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 11868-11869]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. McCONNELL. Tomorrow, the Senate will resume consideration of the 
nomination of Bill Pryor to be a

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U.S. circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Earlier today, cloture was 
invoked on the Pryor nomination by a vote of 67 to 32. Under a previous 
order, the time until 4 p.m. will be equally divided for debate on that 
nomination. At 4 p.m., the Senate will proceed to a vote on 
confirmation. The vote on the Pryor nomination will be the first vote 
of the day.
  Following the Pryor confirmation vote, the Senate will consider the 
Griffin and McKeague nominations to the Sixth Circuit. We will debate 
those nominations concurrently and vote on confirmation tomorrow 
evening. I would say to our colleagues, we are not finished when we 
finish the vote on Judge Pryor tomorrow afternoon. We have two more 
very important nominations to the Sixth Circuit, a circuit that has 
been 25-percent vacant for many years. So we will not be able to 
conclude until we finish all of those nominations tomorrow.

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