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Thursday, May 27, 2021
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3547-S3913
Measures Introduced: Eighty-six bills and nine resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 1869-1954, and S. Res. 246-254.
Pages S3891-95
Measures Reported:
S. 272, to amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, to require the budget justifications and appropriation requests of agencies be made publicly available, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 117-23)
S. Res. 229, recognizing the devastating attack on a girls' school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 8, 2021, and expressing solidarity with the Afghan people.
S. 1658, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to expand access to breastfeeding accommodations in the workplace, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
S. 1931, to amend title 23, United States Code, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs.
Page S3891
Measures Passed:
RESPECT Act: Senate passed S. 789, to repeal certain obsolete laws relating to Indians.
Page S3851
Measures Considered:
Endless Frontier Act--Agreement: Senate continued consideration of S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S3549-S3851, S3851-76
Adopted:
By 91 yeas to 4 nays (Vote No. 216), Crapo/Wyden Modified Amendment No. 1562 (to Amendment No. 1502), to ensure trade is conducted consistent with American values, to ensure resiliency in critical supply chains, to improve transparency and administration of trade programs and oversight and accountability of trade agencies, and to promote American competitiveness. (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having achieved 60 affirmatives votes, be agreed to.)
Pages S3552-S3839
Rejected:
Rubio Amendment No. 1802 (to Amendment No. 1527), to protect the United States against efforts of China and other foreign entities to engage in economic espionage and to misappropriate United States intellectual property, research and development, and innovation efforts. (By 55 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. 215), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S3551-52, S3838-39
Withdrawn:
Cantwell Amendment No. 1527 (to Amendment No. 1502), of a perfecting nature.
Pages S3549, S3864
Pending:
Schumer Amendment No. 1502, in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S3549-S3876
Cornyn/Cotton Amendment No. 1858 (to Amendment No. 1502), to modify the semiconductor incentives program of the Department of Commerce.
Page S3864
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following action:
By 68 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No. 214), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on Schumer Amendment No. 1502
(listed above).
Page S3551
By 84 yeas to 7 nays (Vote No. 217), Senate agreed to the motion to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to request the attendance of absent Senators.
Pages S3862-63
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the bill at approximately 9 a.m., on Friday, May 28, 2021; and that all time in recess count post-cloture on Schumer Amendment No. 1502.
Page S3913
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
Christine Elizabeth Wormuth, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Army.
Pages S3548, S3913 Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
Brian Eddie Nelson, of California, to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes.
Elizabeth Rosenberg, of Vermont, to be Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Department of the Treasury.
Arun Venkataraman, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.
Sarah Bianchi, of Virginia, to be Deputy United States Trade Representative (Asia, Africa, Investment, Services, Textiles, and Industrial Competitiveness), with the rank of Ambassador.
Elizabeth Merrill Brown, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, Department of Education.
Gwynne A. Wilcox, of New York, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of five years expiring August 27, 2023.
Matthew G. Olsen, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
6 Army nominations in the rank of general.
Executive Reports of Committees:
Page S3891
Notice of a Tie Vote Under S. Res. 27:
Page S3879
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S3895-97
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S3897-S3906
Additional Statements:
Pages S3888-91
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S3906-13
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Page S3913
Privileges of the Floor:
Page S3913
=========================== NOTE ===========================
On page D582, May 27, 2021, the following language appears: Executive Reports of Committees: Page S3891 Additional Cosponsors: Pages S3895-97 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Pages S3897-S3906 Additional Statements: Pages S3888-91 Amendments Submitted: Pages S3906-13 Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S3913 Privileges of the Floor: Page S3913
The online Record has been corrected to read: Executive Reports of Committees: Page S3891 Notice of a Tie Vote Under S. Res. 27: Page S3879 Additional Cosponsors: Pages S3895-97 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Pages S3897-S3906 Additional Statements: Pages S3888-91 Amendments Submitted: Pages S3906-13 Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S3913 Privileges of the Floor: Page S3913
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Quorum Calls: One quorum call was taken today. (Total--3)
Page S3862Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--217)30Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 27, 2021 and recessed at 2:51 a.m. ond at Friday, May 28, 2021, until 9 a.m. on the same day.
(For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3913.)
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 93
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