Senate Canendar 12/23/09-12/24/09

12/24/09 Convenes: 6:45am The Senate will convene at 6:45am and will resume consideration of H.R.3590, Health Care Reform, with the time until 7am equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. At 7am, the Senate will proceed to a series of 2 roll call votes in relation to the following items: - Passage of H.R.3590, Health Care Reform; and - Passage of H.R.4314, an act to permit continued financing of government operations (60-vote threshold). 12/23/09 Convenes: 9:45am At 9:45am, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R.3590, Health Care Reform, with the time until 10:00am equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. At 10:00am the Senate will proceed to alternating blocks of time until 2:00pm, with the Majority controlling the first hour. The time from 2:00pm and until 2:13pm will be equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders, with the Majority Leader controlling the final half. At 2:13pm, the Senate will proceed to a series of up to 5 roll call votes in relation to the Health Care Reform bill, including votes in relation to points of order, adoption of the Reid Substitute amendment, and cloture on the underlying bill, HR3590. Under an agreement reached on Tuesday, if cloture is invoked, all post-cloture debate will expire at 8:00am Thursday, December 24. Votes: 389: Ensign Constitutional Point of Order (violation of enumerated powers in Article I and the 5th Amendment) (majority vote); Not Well Taken: 39-60 390: Baucus Motion to Waive Budget Act (Corker point of order with respect to unfunded mandates) (majority vote); Waived: 55-44 391: Baucus Motion to Table Cornyn Appeal of the Ruling of the Chair with respect to Rule 44 ((disclosure of congressionally directed spending)) on the Reid-Baucus-Dodd-Harkin substitute amendment ((majority vote); Tabled: 57-42 392: Hutchison Constitutional Point of Order that Reid amendment #2786: (Tenth Amendment); Not Well Taken: 39-60 393: Baucus Motion to Table DeMint Motion to suspend the Rules for the purpose of proposing and considering DeMint amendment #3297: (create point order); Tabled: 53-46 394: Adoption of the Reid-Baucus-Dodd-Harkin substitute amendment (Majority vote); Agreed To: 60-39 395: Cloture on HR3590, as amended (60 vote threshold); Invoked: 60-39 There will be no further roll call votes. Unanimous Consent: Passed H.R.730, Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act. Passed H.R.3819, an act to extend the commercial space transportation liability regime. Discharged EPW from further consideration of Timothy McGee to be an Assistance Secretary of Commerce, and referred to Commerce Committee.