Monday: Ambassador nominations, suspensions

The Senate on Monday will consider two ambassador nominees who are major Obama campaign bundlers, while the House will vote on suspension bills.

Noah Mamet, the nominee for ambassador to Argentina, and Colleen Bell, the nominee for ambassador to Hungary and producer of soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful,” both stumbled during the Senate confirmation process when they showed minimal knowledge about the countries they would be representing.

{mosads}Neither Mamet nor Bell are career diplomats, but each raised more than $500,000 for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

The Senate will convene at 2 p.m. vote at 5:30 p.m. to invoke cloture on the Mamet and Bell nominations.

Meanwhile, the House will convene at 2 p.m. to debate a series of bills under suspension of the rules.

Those bills include H.R. 3410, which would require the Department of Homeland Security to include the threat of electromagnetic pulse events in national planning scenarios and conduct a campaign to educate the public about the threat, and H.R. 5629, which would require the director for Domestic Nuclear Detection to provide support for training to federal, state and local entities in nuclear detection capabilities. 

House votes will be at 6:30 p.m.