[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1835]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to executive session 
to consider Calendar No. 443, Robert McKinnon Califf, to be 
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Robert McKinnon Califf, 
of South Carolina, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of 
Health and Human Services.
  Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to consider the nomination.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination 
     of Robert McKinnon Califf, to be Commissioner of Food and 
     Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander, Bill 
           Cassidy, Chuck Grassley, Pat Roberts, John Barrasso, 
           Richard Burr, Tim Scott, Orrin G. Hatch, Michael B. 
           Enzi, Johnny Isakson, John Boozman, Cory Gardner, Roger 
           F. Wicker, Thom Tillis, Roy Blunt.

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum call with respect to the cloture motion be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule 
XXII, at 5:30 p.m., on February 22, the Senate vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture on the Califf nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.

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