Monday, October 1, 2018

6:39 p.m. The Senate stands in recess until 10:00 a.m. Tuesday.

6:36 p.m. Majority Leader McConnell wraps up the Senate for the evening.

6:11 p.m. Senator Brown spoke on the need for a robust and free press.

6:10 p.m. Cloture was invoked on the motion to concur, 90-7.

Senators voting against: 4 Republicans: Barrasso, Lee, Paul and Toomey; 3 Democrats: Markey, Merkley and Wyden.

Senators not voting: Flake, Heller and Nelson.

5:31 p.m. Roll call vote began on cloture on the motion to concur with respect to H.R.302, the long-term FAA extension.

5:12 p.m. Senator Cortez Masto spoke about the 1 year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting.

5:02 p.m. Senator Hirono spoke about the Kavanaugh nomination.

4:46 p.m. Senator Moran spoke about the US Mexico Canada Agreement.

4:07 p.m. Senator Cornyn spoke about the Kavanaugh nomination.

3:35 p.m. Majority Leader McConnell spoke about the Kavanaugh nomination.

3:23 p.m. Minority Leader Schumer spoke about the Kavanaugh investigation.

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The Senate will convene at 3:00 p.m.

Following Leader remarks, the Senate will resume Executive Session. At 5:00 p.m., the Senate will resume consideration of the House message to accompany H.R.302, the long-term FAA extension.

At 5:30 p.m., there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur with respect to H.R.302, the long-term FAA extension.

Opioids: At a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Democratic Leader, the Senate proceed to the consideration of the House message to accompany H.R. 6, the opioids bill. The Majority Leader, or his designee, will be recognized to make a motion to concur, with up to 4 hours of debate on the motion, equally divided in the usual form. Following the use or yielding back of that time, the Senate vote on the motion to concur with no further intervening action or debate.