[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 15, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D949-D950]
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                                      Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7097-S7142
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and four resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 3784-3792, and S. Res. 622-625.               
  Page S7134
Measures Reported:
  S. 139, to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in 
interstate commerce, in possession of data containing sensitive 
personally identifiable information, to disclose any breach of such 
information. (S. Rept. No. 111-290)                          
Page S7134
Measures Passed:
  Honoring the Oklahoma Army National Guard and Air National Guard: 
Senate agreed to S. Res. 624, honoring the members of the Army National 
Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Oklahoma for their service 
and sacrifice on behalf of the United States since September 11, 2001. 
                                                         Pages S7140-41
  National Preparedness Month: Senate agreed to S. Res. 625, 
designating September 2010 as ``National Preparedness Month''. 
                                                             Page S7141
Measures Considered:
  Small Business Lending Fund Act--Agreement: Senate continued 
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 S7103-19, S7119-26
Pending:
  Reid (for Baucus/Landrieu) Amendment No. 4594, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S7103
  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.                                         
Page S7103
  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.                
Page S7103
  Reid Amendment No. 4597 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 4594), to change the enactment date.           
Page S7103
  Reid Amendment No. 4598 (to Amendment No. 4597), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S7103
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, 
September 16, 2010, that all post-cloture time be considered expired at 
10:45 a.m.; that upon the expiration of time, all pending amendments be 
withdrawn, except Reid (for Baucus/Landrieu) Amendment No. 4594 (listed 
above), that for the duration of this agreement, no other amendments, 
motions or points of order be in order except as noted in this 
agreement; that the only motions in order be a Hatch motion to suspend 
the rules with respect to R&D, and a Grassley motion to suspend the 
rules with respect to biodiesel; with Senators Baucus, Hatch, and 
Grassley, or their designees, each controlling a total of 15 minutes; 
that the votes with respect to the motions to suspend occur in the 
order in which offered beginning at 10:45 a.m.; that after the first 
vote the succeeding vote be limited to 10 minutes each; and that prior 
to each vote, there be 2 minutes of debate equally divided and 
controlled in the usual form; that upon disposition of the 
aforementioned motions; the substitute amendment be agreed to; and then 
the time until 12 noon be equally divided and controlled between the 
two leaders, or their designees; that at 12 noon, Senate vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the bill, as amended; that if cloture is 
invoked on the bill, then all post-cloture time be yielded back, and 
Senate vote on passage of the bill, as amended; provided further, that 
the motions identified in this agreement be those which have been 
submitted at the desk when this agreement was entered.       
Page S7141
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:

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  Carol Fulp, of Massachusetts, to be a Representative of the United 
States of America to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations.
  Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, to be a Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations.
  Roger F. Wicker, of Mississippi, to be a Representative of the United 
States of America to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations.
  Gregory J. Nickels, of Washington, to be an Alternate Representative 
of the United States of America to the Sixty-fifth Session of the 
General Assembly of the United Nations.
  Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Army and Navy.                        
Page S7142
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S7132
Measures Read the First Time:                         
  Pages S7132, 7141
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S7132-34
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7134-35
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S7135-39
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7131-32
Notices of Intent:                                       
  Pages S7139-40
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S7140
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S7140
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S7140
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 7:20 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2010. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S7142.)