An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.

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Introduced 2025-12-01Topic: governance ethics

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This Senate resolution would allow the Senate to take up 88 listed presidential nominations together as a single group (en bloc), rather than one at a time. The nominations include positions at the Departments of Defense, Labor, Treasury, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, State, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs. The list also includes U.S. Attorneys, inspectors general, ambassadors, judges of the D.C. Superior Court, Tennessee Valley Authority board members, and leaders of independent agencies such as the FDIC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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Date	Chamber	Question	Result	Yeas	Nays
2025-12-04	Senate roll 633	On the Cloture Motion S.Res. 520	Cloture Motion Rejected	43	37

Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-12-04	Senate	Cloture, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 37. Record Vote Number: 633. (CR S8501)
2025-12-04	Senate	By unanimous consent agreement, mandatory quorum required under Rule XXII waived.
2025-12-02	Senate	Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate. (CR S8433)
2025-12-02	Senate	Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S8433)
2025-12-02	Senate	Motion to proceed to executive session to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
2025-12-01	Senate	Placed on Senate Executive Calendar under Over, Under the Rule. Calendar No. 3.
2025-12-01	Senate	Submitted in the Senate Placed on Executive Calendar under Over, Under the Rule.	refer
2025-12-01		Introduced in Senate	introduce

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