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handle is hein.crs/govenka0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional1 S£ Research Service S.Res. 444: Providing for En Bloc Consideration of Military Nominations November 9, 2023 On October 31, 2023, Senator Jack Reed, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, submitted S.Res. 444, a resolution proposing a temporary process to allow the Senate to consider more than one military nomination at a time (referred to as en bloc consideration). The resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration, and the committee has announced its intention to meet to consider the resolution on November 14, 2023. Background Every year, the President submits to the Senate, for its advice and consent, thousands of nominations for noncivilian military appointments and promotions. These nominations are sometimes submitted as lists of names for appointment to the grade indicated, such that one presidential message can contain multiple individual nominations. Such a list is usually assigned a single Presidential Nomination (PN) number by the Senate with the expectation that the individual nominations will be considered together by unanimous consent. Military nominations are referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has the option of reporting them to the full Senate. The Senate, by unanimous consent, routinely takes up and confirms reported military nominations en bloc when no Senator objects to their consideration. For example, on September 30, 2023, the Senate took up and confirmed 4,280 military nominees en bloc by unanimous consent. Under current procedures, unanimous consent is the only way to consider multiple nominations simultaneously. (For more information regarding current procedures for considering nominations absent unanimous consent, see CRS Insight IN 12200, Holds on Nominations.) Procedures Proposed by S.Res. 444 The procedures proposed in S.Res. 444 would apply to military promotions and appointments reported favorably by the Armed Services Committee, excluding nominations to the 8 positions that make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff (defined by law) and excluding nominations to be a commander of the 11 combatant commands (also defined by law, including separate provisions of law concerning the combatant command for special operations forces and for cyber operations). Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12276 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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