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 debate on the nomination of stanley allen bastian of washington to be united states district judge for the eastern district of washington signed by 18 senators as follows. reid of nevada, leahy, tester, boxer, schumer, durbin, casey, coons, rockefeller, levin, cantwell, nelson, whitehouse, murphy, murray, udall of new mexico and king. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. without objection. mr. reid: might have to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in faye say aye. all -- all in favor say aye. opposed nay. the motion carries. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 587. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. opposed nay. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to and the the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: manish s. s. shah of illinois to be united

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 daniel d. crabtree of kansas to be united states district judge for the district of kansas. signed by 17 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 daniel d. crabtree of kansas to be the united states district judge for the district of kansas, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the ayes are 57, the nays are 39, and the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report 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 cynthia

hi, i'm amy we the undersigned parents in the korean program respectfully ask that you provide alternative korean program in addition to current 2013-2014 staffing with one additional bilingual teacher along with b the alleged funding and support necessary to develop and implement and teach in the target language. one content area in all grades levels of the school and two the art course in the grade levels. we have also attached multiple signatures and parents in support. good evening, members of the brown paper bags thank you for your time you've dedicated to the san francisco unified school district i'm amy lee i'm fortunate to have 3 daughters in the program. serve years ago we came in support of the literacy policy unfortunately, the korean program nearly stops after the fifth grade now my fifth and eight graders has all but lost her language. it's disleaning to see this, please don't waste the k through 12 program by stopping the korean programs up to the eight grade and we need the bilingual stamp you've duped many years ago. thank you very much for your time >> (clapping.) board me

the clerk: 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 nomination of george jared hazel of maryland to be united states district judge for the district of maryland. signed by 17 senators as follows. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the reading of the names not be necessary. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now move to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. reid: i now move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 575. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion to proceed. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the cler

it read in part, your husband, pastor guericke has been taking religious care of the undersigned defendants during the nuremberg trial and has been doing so for more than half a year. we now have heard, that you wish to see him back, after his absence of several years. because we also have wives and children, we understand this wish of yours very well. our dear chaplain is necessary for us not only has the minister but also has a fairly good man that he is. surely we need not describe him as such is on life. we simply have come to love him. in the fall of 2007i was writing a story for the newspaper right down the streets, the st. louis post-dispatch right cover the religious be. the store was about operation-,a program that the lutheran church had recently begun to help chaplains who were returning from iraq in afghanistan more smoothly ran to their congregations banco, but they needed some help. it went to in korea seminary, the school's historical institute happens to have an exhibition on the history of the american military chaplain at the time. under one of those pieces of glass was a

the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on s. 2199, a bill to amend the fair labor standards act of 1938 and so forth and for other purposes, 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 motion to proceed to s. 2199, a bill to amend the fair labor standards act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex and for other purposes shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, on this vote, the ayes are 53, the nays are 44. three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn have not voted in the affirmative, and the motion is not agreed to. mr. reid: madam president? the p

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 substitute amendment numbered 2874 to h.r. 3979, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 and so forth. signed by 17 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 amendment number 2874 to h.r. 3979, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the patient protection and affordable caraffordable care ae brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? on this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 38. three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is

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 substitute amendment numbered 2874 to h.r. 3979, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 and so forth. signed by 17 senators.

the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the motion to proceed to s. 2233, a bill to provide for a federal minimum wage and to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to extend increased expensing limitations and the treatment of certain real property as section 179 property. signed by 17 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

the clerk: 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 debate on the nomination of stanley allen bastian of washington to be united states district judge for the eastern district of washington, 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 stanley allen bastian of washington to be united states district judge for the eastern district of washington shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote snr? if not, on the motion to invoke cloture, the ayes are 55, the noes are 41. the motion is agreed to. under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the shah nomination. the senator from vment vthe sen. mr. leahy: mr. president, i ask all

the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 354, s. 2223, a bill to provide for an increase in the federal minimum wage and so forth signed by 17 senators as follows: reid of nevada, harkin, merkley, leahy, booker, warren, reed of rhode island, durbin, cardin, carper, coons, nelson, franken, gillibrand, whitehouse, casey, sanders. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, if any, the senate will be in morning business until 5:30 today, the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or her designees. at 5:30 there will be up to four roll call votes. first, confirmation of the friedland nomination, the next a cloture vote on the weil nomination, stob administrator of the wage and hour division of the department of labor, and a c

the clerk: we, the undersigned senators in accordance of 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 michelle t. freidland of california to be united states circuit judge for the ninth circuit. signed by 17 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 michelle t. freidland of california to be united states circuit judge of the ninth circuit, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: any senators wishing to vote or change their vote? if not, the ayes are 56. the nays are 41. the motion to invoke cloture is agreed to. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. cornyn: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, could we have order in the chamber? the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i want to start today by ma

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 motion to proceed to calendar number 345, s. 199, a bill to amend the fair labor standards act of 1938 and so forth and for other purposes signed by 18 senators as follows -- reid of nevada, mikulski, murray, durbin, yibled, schatz, heinrich, baldwin, boxer, stabenow, hirono, hagan, landrieu, mccaskill, shaheen, feinstein, klobuchar. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: mr. president, thank you very much. for that recognition. i come to the floor today to talk about jobs and about one sector in particular, -- maybe we should should have a job sector to fix this desk but that's not what i'm here to talk about. one job sector that's created tremendous job growth in colorado and across the united states and that's wi