[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, the majority leader and I have been 
discussing, over the last few days, clearing a number of nominees, and 
I am prepared--although I will defer tonight--to attempt to clear a 
list of over 60 nominees. The President made some reference to that 
over the weekend. I just want to make sure everybody understands both 
downtown and here that we are prepared to clear over 60 nominations and 
have been prepared to clear them for the last week, and I am hopeful my 
friend, the majority leader, will be able to indicate at some point in 
the near future that we might be able to go forward with these 
nominees.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, the Republican leader is correct. He has 
submitted a list of names. We have exchanged those with our respective 
staffs. I appreciate it very much. I have had one issue I have had to 
work through, and he has been very considerate on not moving forward on 
any consent request until I get this worked out. I think we will be 
able to do that tonight--if not, the first thing in the morning. So I 
appreciate very much our being able to move forward. I think we can do 
it as early as tomorrow morning--at least sometime tomorrow early.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I thank the majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
order for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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