[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 3490-3491]
[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. 18, Seema Verma, to be Administrator of the 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  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 bill clerk read the nomination of Seema Verma, of Indiana, to be 
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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                             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 Seema Verma, of Indiana, to be Administrator of the 
     Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of 
     Health and Human Services.
         Mitch McConnell, Steve Daines, John Cornyn, Tom Cotton, 
           Bob Corker, John Boozman, John Hoeven, James Lankford, 
           Roger F. Wicker, John Barrasso, Lamar Alexander, Orrin 
           G. Hatch, David Perdue, James M. Inhofe, Mike Rounds, 
           Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis.

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum call with respect to the nomination be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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