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Prescribes expedited procedures for Senate consideration of nominations (subject to advice and consent) for specified positions.
Requires the Secretary of the Senate to create the appropriate sections on the Executive Calendar to reflect and effectuate the requirements of this resolution.
Requires the report accompanying each public bill or joint resolution reported by any committee to contain an evaluation and justification for the establishment in the measure of any new position appointed by the President within an existing or new federal entity.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S.Res. 116 as passed Senate amended on Jun 29, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jun 29, 2011Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJun 29, 2011
Senate Jun 29, 2011 · the primary vote
S. Res. 116 as Amended
Resolution Agreed to
89 Yea 8 Nay 3 not voting
Crossed both parties 8 of 97 voting members broke with their own party: 8 Republicans.
DemocratsIndependentsOtherRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S.Res. 116 and vote against it. 14 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S.Res. 116 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
1 disclosure names this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.