An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.

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SRES 377 is a routine internal Senate procedural rule organizing en bloc consideration of executive and ambassador nominations. It rests squarely on Article II advice-and-consent authority and the Article I power of the Senate to set its own proceedings, with no rights infringement, sovereignty restriction, or federalism concern.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  The Senate has explicit authority to act. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 grants the Senate advice-and-consent power over officers and ambassadors, and Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 authorizes each House to determine the Rules of its Proceedings. An en bloc consideration rule is a direct exercise of that rulemaking power.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  No speech, religion, press, arms, search, trial, or other Bill of Rights interest is implicated. The resolution governs only Senate floor procedure for nominations and restricts no private conduct protected by the First through Tenth Amendments.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The resolution restricts no personal decision over body, property, speech, labor, or belief. It binds only Senators in Executive Session procedure. No private liberty requires government justification here because none is infringed.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Advice and consent is an inherently federal Senate function that cannot be performed by individuals, localities, or states. The resolution does not transfer any decision-making from a lower to a higher level; it only organizes the Senate's own constitutionally assigned work, so no upward consolidation occurs.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property and no property is taken. The Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Clauses apply to deprivations against private persons, not to Senate scheduling of nomination votes. Nominees have no vested property right in confirmation.

Sources: Congress.gov: SRES 377 summary