Regarding u. S. Saudi relations and security in the middle east. And in the persian gulf. And so the vetoes were to be expected but congress has been on a bipartisan basis frustrated with the president and his administrations handling of relations with saudi arabia, involvement in the support of the saudiled campaign in yemen, and it was sort of a debate that we know the way this is going to end with these resolutions, the vetoes being sustained, but its an exercise that members of both parties wanted to go through. Host we mentioned its part of a very busy week in the senate and your roll call piece, the headline reflecting. That the headline saying next week the senate will consider a budget deal, confirm judges and two senior officials. Who are those two top officials . Reporter what were looking for is for the deputy secretary of defense norquist to win confirmation. Obviously the secretary of defense, mark he is per, was confirmed esper, was confirmed and took the job last week. Now theyre going to confirm the deputy secretary of development the other position that is out there, that mcconnell views as a key position for confirmation, is the u. S. Ambassador to the united nations, kelly kraft, who is trumps nominee for that position. Shes the current ambassador to can dand probably, importantly as well to canada, and probably importantly as well, she lives in kentucky and she and her husband are major supporters of mcconnell and his political operations. Host also a part of that, 19 district judge nominations, the majority leader filing cloture on those. Why are these a priority for Mitch Mcconnell and how will they get it done under senate rules . Reporter s rules make it doable now because, remember, we only have an allowance in the senate for a couple of hours of debate, once cloture is invoked and debate is limited on each one of them. So what we could see is a long, long series of votes on those district judges. But its a priority for mcconnell and President Trump to just continue to fill these vacancies. President trump enjoys, i believe, touting the record of the number of judges that he has gotten confirmed and its something that mcconnell wants to remake the federal judiciary. Now, i would say there is some chance that theres an agreement to yield back time so that there is not, say, a votearama or a long sequence of votes every couple of hours. Because a handful of these nominees are actually people who were selected by Democratic Senators and recommended to President Trump by Democratic Senators. Theres a choice for a seat thats based in the chicago area , that dick durbin and Tammy Duckworth would have been involved in selecting. And theres a few others like that. So this may not take as long as it appears. Host lastly, the twoyear budget deal passed in the house. This is the 324 324 billion agreement between the white house and congressional leaders, raising the debt ceiling through 2021. It passed in the house, 2 3 of republicans voting against it there. How about the in the senate . Any roadblocks ahead . Reporter it doesnt seem like theres any actual road blocks. The question is how Many Senate Republicans will actually vote for it. I would expect that the members of the Appropriations Committee on the republican side will vote for it. I imagine most democrats will vote for it. One thing, though, is there is the possibility of some attendance issues on the democratic side, because of course there are democratic president ial debates in detroit in the middle of the week. But ultimately i dont think this is going to be any real complicating factor for it. The only thing to watch out for, as you well know and as viewers would well know, is because there is a time agreement that is going to be needed, you could see a situation where a senator, like ranled paul of kentucky, or rand paul of kentucky, or another conservative stipstappeds up with some sort of demand to get an amendment vote. We may have to go through that exercise and see that happen in the senate. But ultimately i think this is going to get through without much trouble. Host let me ask you as we close about september and the headline, your piece with jennifer in c. Q. For appropriations bills, now comes the hard part. Does this agreement make it much, much easier for those bills to be finished before the end of september . It certainly makes it a lot easier. Jennifer and i were speaking earlier this week with a lot of the appropriators on both sides of the hill and theyre eager to get to work. Senator Lamar Alexander from tennessee told the both of us that he was meeting for dinner with dianne feinstein, who is the ranking democrat on the energy and water appropriations subcommittee that he chairs. They are eager to get to work and basically have these bills ready to go by the time august recess is done. So for those subcommittee clerks and the senior members of the Appropriations Committee staff, particularly in the senate, theres not really going to be an august recess. So i would imagine that the folks who work in senior roles for senator shelby and senator leahy, if they go to the beach, they better have good Internet Access when they get there. Host well keep an eye on it. From niels lesniewski, Senior Senate reporter for c. Q. Roll call, hes on twitter. Thanks so much for joining us. Reporter thank you. Cred red fdic [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] Jerrold Nadler held a News Conference earlier today to discuss the Robert Mueller report. And mr. Muellers testimony this week in front of congress. He said his committee is still considering whether or not to recommend articles of impeachment against President Trump. This is half an hour