119th Congress · PN246-10 · Public Health Service
Casey Means
Where this nomination stands
Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. · January 3, 2026
- ReceivedJune 2, 2025
- Sent to committeeJune 2, 2025
- Hearingnot on record
- Committee votenot on record
- On the Senate calendarnot on record
- Senate votenot on record
- ReturnedJanuary 3, 2026
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Description on the record: Casey Means, of California, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a term of four years, vice Vivek Hallegere Murthy, resigned.
Evidence
- Record
- Congress.gov nomination PN246-10 ↗
- Machine-readable record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/nomination/119/246-10?format=json- Status wording
- PORKER shows the status from Congress.gov’s latest-action text: “Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.” (January 3, 2026)
- Last updated by Congress.gov
- January 5, 2026
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- Raw copy kept
- nominations-119-2026-10-16-06a5bfe9.jsonl.gz
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Senate votes
Roll calls recorded on this nomination. Both parties are shown the same way, and nothing here is a score.
No Senate roll call vote is on record for this nomination yet.
Committee steps
- Referred To June 2, 2025: Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Every recorded action
- Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
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