Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has delayed a vote on the confirmation of Janet Yellen, President Obama's choice for chairman of the Fed, until Jan. 6.

There will be two roll call votes at 5:30 p.m. that day, according to the Senate floor schedule proposed late Thursday.

The first is the “confirmation of the Yellen nomination” and the other is a “motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1845 the Unemployment Extension Act.”

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