Today -

• The Senate will reconvene 3:00 p.m.
• At 5:00 p.m., the Senate will resume consideration of the House message accompanying H.R. 302, the vehicle for the FAA reauthorization, as if in legislative session.
• At 5:30 p.m., the Senate will VOTE on cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 302, the vehicle for the FAA reauthorization.
• If cloture is invoked on the motion to concur, the Senate will remain in Executive Session and the post-cloture time will continue to run as otherwise under the rule.
• Upon the use or yielding back of the post-cloture time, the Senate will VOTE as if in legislative session on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 302, the vehicle for the FAA reauthorization.
• Note: on Friday, September 28, cloture was filed on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 302, the vehicle for the FAA reauthorization.

 

Senator Schumer: (3:23 p.m.)

• Spoke on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • "What's important now is for the F.B.I. investigation to be serious, impartial and thorough, to ferret out the facts and do so quickly. That means interviewing all -- all - of the relevant witnesses and accepting corroborating accounts when they come forward. It also means following up on any leads that emerge from the process of the investigation. The F.B.I. has ample resources to do this within the one-week period requested by the members of the Judiciary Committee. No one is asking it take longer than a week, but everyone is asking it be done thoroughly and completely within that week. There is concern that the white house has placed severe constraints on the investigation, and until today the president tried to dodge that responsibility."

 

Senator McConnell: (3:36 p.m.)

• Spoke on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • "Here is the quote. We're looking at the destruction of the Constitution of the United States as far as I can tell. And here is the Democratic leader just hours after Judge Kavanaugh was nominated. I will oppose him with everything I've got. Well, they've certainly done just that. They've done just that. The ranking Democrat on the Committee first heard from Dr. Ford on July 30. Did our colleague alert the chairman so the Committee could do due diligence in a confidential way consistent with Dr. Ford's wishes? No. No, she did not. Did she discreetly raise the issue with Judge Kavanaugh during his private meeting with him on August 20? She didn't do that either. As best we can tell, the Democrats chose to keep this allegation secret rather than investigating in a bipartisan and timely way. In fact, Mr. President, they held it in reserve."