Executive Business Meeting

I. Nominations

Gregg Jeffrey Costa, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit

Cheryl Ann Krause, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit

Tanya S. Chutkan, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia

M. Hannah Lauck, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia

Leo T. Sorokin, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts

Richard Franklin Boulware II, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nevada

Salvador Mendoza, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington

Staci Michelle Yandle, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Illinois

John Charles Cruden, to be an Assistant Attorney General

Leon Rodriguez, to be Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security

II. Bill

S.1720, Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013 (Leahy, Lee, Klobuchar, Whitehouse)