{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2014-12-16-pt1-PgS6905", "2014-12-16", 113, 2, null, null, "NOMINATION OF ESTEVAN R. LOPEZ TO BE COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION", "SENATE", "SENATE", "SNOMINATIONS", "S6905", "S6905", "[{\"name\": \"Harry Reid\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Tom Coburn\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"113\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"2244\"}, {\"congress\": \"113\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"2244\"}]", "160 Cong. Rec. S6905", "Congressional Record, Volume 160 Issue 155 (Tuesday, December 16, 2014)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 155 (Tuesday, December 16, 2014)]\n[Senate]\n[Page S6905]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n    NOMINATION OF ESTEVAN R. LOPEZ TO BE COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION\n\n                                 F_____\n\n  NOMINATION OF MARCUS DWAYNE JADOTTE TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF\n                                COMMERCE\n\n                                 F_____\n\n      NOMINATION OF JONATHAN NICHOLAS STIVERS TO BE AN ASSISTANT\nADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT\n\n                                 F_____\n\n NOMINATION OF JOHN CHARLES CRUDEN TO BE AN ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL\n\n                                 F_____\n\nNOMINATION OF CHRISTOPHER SMITH TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY\n                            (FOSSIL ENERGY)\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now proceed to the following\nnominations, which the clerk will report.\n  The assistant legislative clerk read the nominations of Estevan R.\nLopez, of New Mexico, to be Commissioner of Reclamation; Marcus Dwayne\nJadotte, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Jonathan\nNicholas Stivers, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant\nAdministrator of the United States Agency for International\nDevelopment; John Charles Cruden, of Virginia, to be an Assistant\nAttorney General; and Christopher Smith, of Texas, to be an Assistant\nSecretary of Energy (Fossil Energy).\n\n                        Vote on Lopez Nomination\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and\nconsent to the nomination of Estevan R. Lopez, of New Mexico, to be\nCommissioner of Reclamation?\n  The nomination was confirmed.\n\n                       Vote on Jadotte Nomination\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and\nconsent to the nomination of Marcus Dwayne Jadotte, of Florida, to be\nan Assistant Secretary of Commerce?\n  The nomination was confirmed.\n\n                       Vote on Stivers Nomination\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and\nconsent to the nomination of Jonathan Nicholas Stivers, of the District\nof Columbia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States\nAgency for International Development?\n  The nomination was confirmed.\n\n                       Vote on Cruden Nomination\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and\nconsent to the nomination of John Charles Cruden, of Virginia, to be an\nAssistant Attorney General?\n  The nomination was confirmed.\n\n                        Vote on Smith Nomination\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and\nconsent to the nomination of Christopher Smith, of Texas, to be an\nAssistant Secretary of Energy (Fossil Energy)?\n  The nomination was confirmed.\n  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.\n  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.\n  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call\nbe rescinded.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.\n  Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered\nmade and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately\nnotified of the Senate's action.\n  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.\n  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.\n  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for\nthe quorum call be rescinded.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.\n\n                   unanimous consent request--s. 2244\n\n  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate\nresume legislative session and proceed to the consideration of the\nHouse message to accompany S. 2244, which is the Terrorism Risk\nInsurance Act; that the majority leader be recognized for the purpose\nof offering a motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 2244; that\nthere be up to 10 minutes of debate equally divided between the two\nleaders or their designees prior to a vote on the motion to concur;\nthat there be no motions to concur with an amendment or motions to\nrefer in order prior to a vote on the motion to concur; finally, the\nvote on adoption of the motion to concur be subject to a 60-\naffirmative-vote threshold.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?\n  Mr. COBURN. Reserving the right to object.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.\n  Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, I thank Senator Schumer for trying to work\nwith me on this bill, and the members of the banking committee. They\nhave known my objections all along on both NARAB and the options we\noffered.\n  We offered this evening to the House three options under which they\ncould enroll to come back to where the Senate had been in terms of a 2-\nyear sunset provision. They disagreed with that. And the other options\nwe offered--taking NARAB completely out of this bill--which doesn't\nhave anything to do with the terrorism risk insurance bill, or to give\nStates an opt-out so the States that don't want to be a part of the\nNARAB provision don't have to be a part of it, we have not been able to\nfind agreement on that, despite the best efforts of a lot of people\nhere this evening.\n  I ask the majority leader if he would agree to amend his request to\nstrike the NARAB provision from the bill.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the majority leader so modify his\nrequest?\n  Mr. REID. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, my friend\nfrom Oklahoma seeks to amend the House-passed TRIA bill with an\nunrelated piece of legislation in the sense that he knows--we all\nknow--would change the bill, it is gone, and that would be a\nmodification to the bill. If the Senate were to amend TRIA, we would\nhave to send it back to the House of Representatives. They are gone.\nThey are not going to change anything in the bill. We have been told\nthat many times. Amending the TRIA bill would be just another way to\nkill the TRIA bill.\n  I say with respect to my friend from Oklahoma, whom I have worked\nwith for 10 years, from the very beginning we have tried to work out\nsomething with him on this bill. We have been unable to do that. It is\nunfortunate, but his objection is going to kill TRIA. I am very sorry\nabout that, but that is a fact. So I cannot accept his modification.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.\n  Is there objection to the original request?\n  Mr. COBURN. Reserving the right to object, to continue one portion of\nmy statement, if I might.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.\n  Mr. COBURN. According to industry calculations, TRIA has made the\nindustry $40 billion in the last 12 years. The American taxpayer takes\nall the risks, except for 35 percent, and the insurance industry makes\nthe money.\n  We had a compromise bill coming out of the banking committee. My\nobjections were well known at that time. They were trying to be\naccommodated by Senator Schumer.\n  With that, I must object to the bill.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2014-12-16-pt1-PgS6905"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 20.92346898280084, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}