A resolution authorizing the Majority Leader to move to proceed to the en bloc consideration of certain nominations.

This Senate resolution authorizes the Majority Leader to move to proceed to en bloc consideration of up to 15 covered nominations. A “covered nomination” is defined as a nomination to a position that is not a Level I position on the Executive Schedule, not a district court judge, not a court of appeals judge, and not the Chief Justice or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The nominations eligible for this procedure must be reported to the Senate by the same committee and placed on the Senate calendar. If authorized, the en bloc consideration would proceed in the same manner as a motion to proceed to the consideration of a single nomination, effectively treating the group of up to 15 nominations as a single package for the purposes of the procedural steps leading to confirmation. In practical terms, this resolution provides a procedural tool to speed up the confirmation process for a block of mid-level nominations, while preserving the standard Senate process once the motion to proceed is approved. It does not apply to top-level executive pay grades, federal judges, or Supreme Court justices, and it requires that all nominations in the block come from the same committee.