Do they enroll their children in the school where they are now or assume theyll be confirmed by then and look at enrolling them in the country in which theyll be serving . Why are we putting people who are serving their country through that type of uncertainty and anxiety . But we are. We are, by failing to move in a timely way the nominations that have been brought forward to us. Ill just mention one other example. I started with the hearing that i chaired today on behalf of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee dealing with four nominees. One was the ambassador to vietnam. I was just recently in vietnam. I met with our current ambassador, ambassador scher. I mention that because hes been nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for asia so hes leaving vietnam. We had a hearing today on the next ambassador to vietnam, a wellqualified career diplomat. The question is, are we going to have the orderly change of command in vietnam, a country critically important to u. S. Interests
Quorum call reid mr. President i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel Robert Stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e. Salas. 606 with the exception of Brigadier General john k. Kelk. And then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretarys desk in the air force and army. That the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legisla
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