coloretti's nomination on april 29, 2013 -- 2014 by a voice vote. ms. coloretti is currently the assistant secretary for management at the u.s. department of the treasury. during her tenure at treasury, ms. coloretti helped create a new treasury operations excellence team which has applied lean principles developed in the private sector to improve performance at the treasury. this work encompasses dozens of process improvement outcomes, saving the department money and staff time while engendering a a -- continuing -- continual improvement. prior to joining the treasury department ms. coloretti held positions in the san francisco mayor's office, including budget director, the san francisco department of troubled youth and their families, the u.s. office of management and budget, and the private sector. she is also a recipient of the national public service award, the public policy and international affairs achievement award and the federal 100 award. in all, ms. coloretti would bring over 20 years of experience in budget and program analysis as well as 1

coloretti of california to be deputy secretary. the presiding officer: with respect to the nominations confirmed under the previous order, the motions to reconsider have been made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's actions. there are now two minutes equally divided prior to a cloture vote on the adler nomination. who yields time? without objection, all time is yielded back. the clerk will report the the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of robert s. adler of the district of columbia to be a commissioner of the consumer product safety commission signed by 18 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of robert s. adler of the district of columbia to be a commission

further, if cloture is invoked on either of these nominations, coloretti and adler nominations, all postcloture time baling expired, senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nominations in the order listed -- i'm so, in the order upon which cloture was i voked. further, that there will be two minutes for debate prior to each vote that. all roll call votes after the first be 10 minutes in length. with respect to the nominations, any nomination, if confirmed, the the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. officer without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that we now proceed to morning business, senators be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the committee on banking, housing be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 2203. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 2203, an act to provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of congress to jack nicholas in recognitio

under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the coloretti nomination. mr. graham: i ask unanimous consent to yield back all time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. graham: and ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? seems to be. the yeas and nays are ordered and the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: are there any members wishing to vote or change their vote? if not, the yeas are 68, the nays are 28 and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the add ler r nomination. any objection? yield back time? no objection's heard. and the question occurs on the nomination. is there a sufficient second for the yeas and nays? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: is there any senator wishing to vote or change their vote? if not, the yeas are 53, the nays are 44 and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate prior to a vote invoke clotur

as the treasury assistant secretary for management, miss coloretti, oversees the treasury's human resources department and may have known about the illegal hiring practices or was at least in a position to know. if she did, she certainly shouldn't be rewarded with a promotion. however, regardless of her involvement, the treasury department needs to come clear. as i said earlier, i have requested e-mails from the treasury department to help me get to the bottom of this. so far i received four e-mails. indead of open transparency, the obama administration is once again obstructing access to information that i need to conduct proper congressional oversight. the treasury department tried to convince me that no other relevant e-mails exist but i am not convinced. their search was limited to only the eight months when the vacancy announcement -- those announcements were opened. this excluded any e-mail communication that troops in preparation for posting the announcements or during 2014, when problems with the announcements were found. so this is unacceptable, so i will continue my objection to t