[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9996]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                        2015--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move to proceed to Calendar No. 428.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the motion.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 428, a bill (H.R. 4660) 
     making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
     Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I yield to my friend the distinguished 
Senator from Connecticut.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Connecticut is 
recognized.


                        Welcoming Rabbi Ginsberg

  Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I thank both Majority Leader Reid and 
Chaplain Black for allowing Rabbi Ginsberg to open our session with 
what I thought was a very beautiful prayer challenging us to action and 
to conscience.
  Just a word about Rabbi Ginsberg's leadership. For the last decade 
Rabbi Ginsberg has been helping to organize one of the most robust 
religious communities in Connecticut.
  In 2000 Rabbi Judah Harris conceived a yeshiva in Waterbury. It began 
with about 38 students and today has grown to service 600 students and 
180 families who have settled in a neighborhood just off the center of 
Waterbury that 10 to 20 years ago had become pretty rundown but today 
is thriving and has been rebuilt because of the community surrounding 
the yeshiva.
  We have had a wonderful Jewish community since the mid-1800s, but it 
is stronger today than ever, in large part because of the efforts of 
Rabbi Ginsberg.
  In addition to building this wonderful community and being amongst 
its leaders, he has been of great counsel to me, Senator Blumenthal, 
and Governor Mallow as a moral guide but also as someone on whom we can 
rely when it comes to the tough policy choices we have to make.
  I again thank Chaplain Black and Leader Reid, and I thank Rabbi 
Ginsberg for accepting our offer to lead us this morning.


                   RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader is recognized.


                                Schedule

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following my remarks and those of the 
Republican leader, the Senate will be in a period of morning business 
until 11:30 a.m. During that time the Republicans will control the 
first 30 minutes and the majority will control the second 30 minutes.
  At 11:30 a.m. there will be up to four rollcall votes on the 
confirmation of several nominations, although we are confident and 
somewhat hopeful that only one rollcall vote will be necessary.
  We will move forward to confirm Crystal Nix-Hines to be U.S. 
Permanent Representative for UNESCO; Michael J. McCord to be Under 
Secretary of Defense, Comptroller; R. Jane Chu, Chairperson of the 
National Endowment for the Arts for a term of 4 years; and then we will 
move forward on Todd A. Batta to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
  At 1:45 p.m. this afternoon there will be three rollcall votes on the 
confirmation of three Federal Reserve nominations: Lael Brainard to be 
a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 
Jerome H. Powell to be a member of the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System; and Stanley Fischer to be Vice Chairman of the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.


                       Reservation of Leader Time

  Would the Chair announce the business of the day.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the 
leadership time is reserved.

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