FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2010 file photo, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan briefs reporters at the White House in Washington. Brennan, now President Barack Obama's nominee to be CIA director, withdrew from consideration for the job in 2008 amid criticism over the agency's use of harsh interrogation techniques, like waterboarding, against terrorist suspects. This time, in 2013, he's making it clear he strongly opposes such practices. Former and current U.S. intelligence officials say Brennan wasn't so vocal a decade ago. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid set a test vote for later Thursday. His announcement came shortly after Attorney General Eric Holder said there are limits on a president's ability to order drone strikes on American soil against suspected terrorists who are U.S. citizens.
The developments came just hours after Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul waged a nearly 13-hour filibuster over the nomination of John Brennan.
Paul said early Thursday he was abandoning his filibuster.
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