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Friday, July 30, 2021
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5197-S5226
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and two resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 2571-2577, and S. Res. 332-333.
Pages S5217-18
Measures Reported:
S. 2297, to improve global health, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Page S5217
Measures Passed:
Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Act: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. 1046, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the residential substance use disorder treatment program, and the bill was then passed.
Pages S5223-24
Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act: Senate passed S. 1301, to provide for the publication by the Secretary of Health and Human Services of physical activity recommendations for Americans.
Page S5224
Oswaldo Paya Way: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was discharged from further consideration of S. 2045, to designate the area between the intersections of 16th Street, Northwest and Fuller Street, Northwest and 16th Street, Northwest and Euclid Street, Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as ``Oswaldo Paya Way'', and the bill was then passed.
Pages S5224-25
American Grown Flower and Foliage Month: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 318, expressing support for the designation of July 2021 as
``American Grown Flower and Foliage Month'', and the resolution was then agreed to.
Page S5225
Relating to the Death of the Honorable Carl Levin: Senate agreed to S. Res. 333, relating to the death of the Honorable Carl Levin, former Senator for the State of Michigan.
Page S5225
Measures Considered:
Invest in America Act: Senate began consideration of H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, after agreeing to the motion to proceed.
Pages S5197-S5201
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following action:
By 66 yeas to 28 nays (Vote No. 288), Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill.
Pages S5197-S5201
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from the President of the United States:
Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the designation as emergency requirements all funding so designated by the Congress in the Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, for the enclosed list of accounts; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget. (PM-13)
Page S5216
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
By 47 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. EX. 290), Ur Mendoza Jaddou, of California, to be Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
Pages S5201-07
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 50 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. EX. 289), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S5201
Janie Simms Hipp, of Arkansas, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture.
Susanna V. Blume, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Department of Defense.
Margaret Vo Schaus, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Page S5225
Messages from the House:
Page S5216
Measures Referred:
Page S5216 Executive Communications:
Pages S5216-17
Additional Cosponsors:
Page S5218
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S5218-21
Additional Statements:
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S5221-23
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--290)
Pages S5201, S5207
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the late Senator Carl M. Levin, in accordance with S. Res. 333, at 7:12 p.m., until 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 31, 2021. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5225.)
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 134
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