Senate votes on 80+ officials all at once in closed session.
S.Res. 412 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar. · Filed by John Thune (R-SD) · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This resolution lets the Senate vote on more than 80 people for top government jobs all at once. The vote happens in a closed session where the public cannot watch. The people include cabinet officials, ambassadors, agency heads, and U.S. Attorneys. Voting on all of them together is faster than voting on each person one by one.
Who it affects
Citizens and voters cannot see the debate or know how their senators voted on each person. The people chosen for jobs face less review. Senators do not have to explain their votes on each person.
One thing to notice
The closed session and batch voting mean the public cannot watch the debate. People cannot see which senators support or oppose each person.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Sep 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Oct 3, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 46.”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $40,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 15 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
John Thune, who sponsored the bill, received $817,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Siff & Associates, Pllc (obo the Mechanical Contractors Association of America) — $40,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- cabinet officials — Top leaders who run major government departments.
- ambassadors — People who represent the United States in other countries.
- agency heads — Leaders of government offices that handle specific jobs.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 6, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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