[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 43 (Thursday, March 15, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D252-D253]
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                                           Thursday, March 15, 2012

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1685-S1762
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 2192-2202, and S. Res. 397-398.           
  Pages S1733-34
Measures Passed:
  HALE Scouts Act: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 473, to provide for 
the conveyance of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita 
National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the 
Boy Scouts of America, and the bill was then passed.         
  Page S1760
  United States Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Commemorative Coin 
Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was discharged 
from further consideration of H.R. 886, to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the 
establishment of the Nation's first Federal law enforcement agency, the 
United States Marshals Service, and the bill was then passed, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:    
  Pages S1760-61
  Reid (for Boozman/Pryor) Amendment No. 1847, to improve the bill. 
                                                             Page S1761
  191st Anniversary of the Independence of Greece: Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 398, recognizing the 191st anniversary of the independence of 
Greece and celebrating Greek and American democracy.         
  Page S1761
Measures Considered:
  Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act--
Agreement: Senate began consideration of H.R. 3606, to increase 
American job creation and economic growth by improving access to the 
public capital markets for emerging growth companies, taking action on 
the following amendments proposed thereto:     
Pages S1693-96, S1714-29
Pending:
  Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 1833, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S1693
  Reid Amendment No. 1834 (to Amendment No. 1833), to change the 
enactment date.                                              
Page S1693
  Reid Amendment No. 1835 (to Amendment No. 1834), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S1693
  Reid (for Cantwell) Amendment No. 1836 (to the language proposed to 
be stricken by Amendment No. 1833), to reauthorize the Export-Import 
Bank of the United States.                               
Pages S1693-94
  Reid Amendment No. 1837 (to Amendment No. 1836), to change the 
enactment date.                                              
Page S1694
  Reid motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs, with instructions, Reid Amendment No. 1838, 
to change the enactment date.                                
Page S1694
  Reid Amendment No. 1839 (to (the instructions) Amendment No. 1838), 
of a perfecting nature.                                      
Page S1694
  Reid Amendment No. 1840 (to Amendment No. 1839), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S1694
   A motion was entered to close further debate on Reid (for Reed) 
Amendment No. 1833 (listed above), and, in accordance with the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on 
cloture will occur on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.               
Page S1693
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Reid (for Cantwell) 
Amendment No. 1836 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 1833) (listed above), and, in accordance with the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on 
cloture will occur upon disposition of Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 
1833.                                                        
Page S1694
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition of Reid (for 
Cantwell) Amendment No. 1836 (to the language proposed to be stricken 
by Amendment No. 1833).                                      
Page S1694
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 4:30 p.m. 
on Monday, March 19, 2012, Senate resume consideration of the bill, and 
that the filing deadline for first-degree amendments

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to Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 1833 and the bill be at 4 p.m. on 
Monday, March 19, 2012.                                      
Page S1761
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By 95 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. EX. 49), Gina Marie Groh, of West 
Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of West Virginia.                                 
Pages S1711-14, S1762
  By 91 yeas to 6 nays (Vote No. EX. 50), Michael Walter Fitzgerald, of 
California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of California.                                    
Pages S1711-14, S1762
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                     
  Pages S1685, S1733
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S1733
Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S1734
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S1734-41
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S1731-32
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S1741-60
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S1760
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S1760
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S1760
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--50) 
                                                         Pages S1713-14
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 4:33 p.m., 
until 2 p.m. on Monday, March 19, 2012. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1761.)