[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 14, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D943-D944]
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                                        Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7051-S7096
Measures Introduced: Ten bills and four resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 3774-3783, and S. Res. 618-621.                  
  Page S7089
Measures Passed:
  National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: Committee on the Judiciary 
was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 597, designating 
September 2010 as ``National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month'', and the 
resolution was then agreed to.                           
  Pages S7094-95
  Citizen Diplomacy Day: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 603, commemorating the 50th 
anniversary of the National Council for International Visitors, and 
designating February 16, 2011, as ``Citizen Diplomacy Day'', and the 
resolution was then agreed to.                               
  Page S7095
  National Principals Month: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 607, recognizing the month of 
October 2010 as ``National Principals Month'', and the resolution was 
then agreed to.                                        
  Pages S7095-7096
  National Day of Encouragement: Senate agreed to S. Res. 620, 
designating September 12, 2010, as ``National Day of Encouragement''. 
                                                             Page S7096
Measures Considered:
  Small Business Lending Fund Act--Agreement: Senate resumed 
consideration of H.R. 5297, to create the Small Business Lending Fund 
Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital 
investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the 
availability of credit for small businesses, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for small business job 
creation, taking action on the following amendments and motion proposed 
thereto:                                       
  Pages S7052-65, S7065-79
Pending:
  Reid (for Baucus/Landrieu) Amendment No. 4594, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                          
Pages S7052, S7062
  Reid (for Nelson (FL)) Modified Amendment No. 4595 (to Amendment No. 
4594), to exempt certain amounts subject to other information reporting 
from the information reporting provisions of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act.                               
Pages S7052, 7054-55
  Reid (for Johanns) Modified Amendment No. 4596 (to Amendment No. 
4595), to repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements 
for payments of $600 or more to corporations.      
Pages S7052, 7054-61
  Reid Amendment No. 4597 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 4594), to change the enactment date.           
Page S7052
  Reid Amendment No. 4598 (to Amendment No. 4597), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S7052
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 46 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 231), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on the Reid (for Johanns) 
Modified Amendment No. 4596 (to Amendment No. 4595) (listed above). 
                                                         Pages S7061-62
  By 56 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 232), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on the Reid (for Nelson 
(FL)) Modified Amendment No. 4595 (to Amendment No. 4594) (listed 
above).                                                      
Page S7062
  By 61 yeas to 37 nays (Vote No. 233), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on the Reid (for Baucus/Landrieu) 
Amendment No. 4594 (listed above).                           
Page S7062
  Reid motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance with 
instructions, Reid Amendment No. 4599 (the instructions on the motion 
to commit), to provide for a study, fell when cloture was invoked on 
Reid (for Baucus/Landrieu) Amendment No. 4594 (listed above). 
                                                             Page S7052
  Reid Amendment No. 4600 (to the instructions (Amendment No. 4599) of 
the motion to commit), of a perfecting nature, fell when Reid motion to 
commit the bill to the Committee on Finance with

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instructions, Reid Amendment No. 4599 (the instructions on the motion 
to commit) fell.                                             
Page S7052
  Reid Amendment No. 4601 (to Amendment No. 4600), of a perfecting 
nature, fell when Reid Amendment No. 4600 (to the instructions 
(Amendment No. 4599) of the motion to commit) fell.          
Page S7052
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
September 15, 2010, and that the time during any period of morning 
business, recess, or adjournment count post-cloture.         
Page S7096
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                     
  Pages S7052, S7085
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S7085-89
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7089-91
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S7091-94
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7083-85
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S7094
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S7094
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--233)  
                                                             Page S7062
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:49 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 15, 2010. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's 
Record on page S7096.)