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I believe all of the nominations listed below will come to the floor of the Senate at some point in the next 6-8 weeks. The DEMs can drop their juvenile and sophomoric tactic of using cloture to refuse to vote (cloture is supposed to be used when a Senator doesn't know where he stands yet, not to keep from voting althogether), in which case the "Constitutional Nuclear Byrd option" has no need to come out of its box. Or, they can refuse to vote ("filibuster," in the vernacular), in which case all hell will break lose in the Senate.

Summary of Circuit Court Nominations

F = 7 subjected to failed cloture motions in 108th Congress
4 = "1 of 4" that DEMs offered to let GOP choose which 3 to dump
S = Positive mention in Specter's May 9, 2005 speech

M = MOU of 14 will not vote against cloture
m = MOU of 14 makes no promise regarding cloture
R = Reid indicates desire to filibuster

C = Out of committee & on the Senate's Executive Calendar
U = Unanimous consent to debate - date TBD
D = Democrats offer to debate - date TBD
v = Debate and vote scheduled
V = Vote -on the nomination- concluded

       --S  --  ---  Boyle, Terrence W.       (4th Cir)
       ---  -R  ---  Haynes, William James II (4th Cir)
       F4S  M-  CUV  Owen, Priscilla          (5th Cir)
       F-S  --  CU-  Griffin, Richard A.      (6th Cir)
       F-S  --  CU-  McKeague, David W.       (6th Cir)
       --S  --  -D-  Neilson, Susan Bieke     (6th Cir)
       F--  mR  ---  Saad, Henry W.           (6th Cir)
       F4S  mR  C--  Myers, William Gerry III (9th Cir)
       F4S  M-  CU-  Pryor, William H.        (11th Cir)
       F4S  M-  CUv  Brown, Janice Rogers     (D.C. Cir)
       --S  --  CU-  Griffith, Thomas B.      (D.C. Cir)
       ---  -R  ---  Kavanaugh, Brett M.      (D.C. Cir)

Last updated May 29, 2005

Owen: Cloture passed 81-18 on May 24, Confirmed 56-43 on May 25.
Brown: Cloture motion filed May 26. Debate starting 2PM June 6.
Brown: Cloture vote scheduled for noon June 7.
Pryor: Cloture motion filed May 26.
Griffin: Reported out of Committee May 26.
McKeague: Reported out of Committee May 26.

-> Cloture Motions for 108th Congress
-> List of Nominations in the 109th Congress Judiciary Committee
-> Senate Executive Calendar (changes each business day)
-> Senate Roll Call Votes - 109th Congress
-> Specter's Speech of May 9, 2005 (109th Congress - Pages S4632 - S4636)
-> Senators' Memorandum of Understanding - May 23, 2005
-> Reid's agreement of May 24, 2005 (S5857)
-> Brown & Pryor cloture motions of May 26, 2005 (S6061)
-> Order of Business for June 6, 2005 (S6065)
-> AP Report Reid wants to filibuster Haynes & Kavanaugh - May 28, 2005
-> Fox News Report Reid will filibuster Saad & Myers - May 29, 2005
-> Boyle was nominated to 4th Cir. in 1991 too, by GHWB