[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to 
executive session to consider Calendar No. 16, Mick Mulvaney to be 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Mick Mulvaney, of South 
Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                             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 bill 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 Mick Mulvaney, of South Carolina, to be Director of the 
     Office of Management and Budget.
         Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Mike Rounds, Tim Scott, 
           Johnny Isakson, James M. Inhofe, Roger F. Wicker, John 
           Thune, Michael B. Enzi, Lindsey Graham, David Perdue, 
           Orrin G. Hatch, Mike Crapo, James E. Risch, James 
           Lankford, John Hoeven, Chuck Grassley.

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