[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16443]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following the remarks of myself and Senator 
McConnell, the Senate will proceed to executive session to consider the 
nomination of Alan Estevez to be a Principal Deputy Under Secretary of 
Defense, working with Senator Hagel. The time until 10:30 a.m. will be 
equally divided. At 10:30, there will be a cloture vote on the 
nomination. If cloture is invoked, we expect to confirm this nomination 
later today and continue with cloture votes on additional nominations.
  We always complain about what we don't get done, but I think everyone 
in the Senate should recognize that as a result of our having changed 
the rules in the Senate, we are able to move through some of these 
things much more quickly. We have reduced the time from 30 hours after 
cloture has been invoked to 8 hours, and that has helped us move 
through these issues. So everybody complains about our never changing 
things around here, but we have, and it has helped us.

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