[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 39 (Monday, March 18, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D229-D230]
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                                             Monday, March 18, 2013

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1873-S1911
Measures Introduced: Eighteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 584-601, and S. Res. 77-79.       
  Page S1892
Measures Reported:
  Reported on Friday, March 15, during the adjournment:
  S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023. 
                                                             Page S1892
Measures Passed:
  National Asbestos Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 66, designating the 
first week of April 2013 as ``National Asbestos Awareness Week'', and 
the resolution was then agreed to.                           
  Page S1911
  Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 79, 
supporting the goals and ideals of Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work 
Day.                                                         
  Page S1911
Measures Considered:
  Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, 
and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act--Agreement: Senate resumed 
consideration of H.R. 933, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other departments and 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, taking action 
on the following amendments proposed thereto:            
  Pages S1874-87
Pending:
  Reid (for Mikulski/Shelby) Modified Amendment No. 26, in the nature 
of a substitute.                                             
Page S1874
  Toomey Amendment No. 115 (to Amendment No. 26), to increase by 
$60,000,000 the amount appropriated for Operation and Maintenance for 
the Department of Defense for programs, projects, and activities in the 
continental United States, and to provide an offset.         
Page S1874
  Durbin Amendment No. 123 (to Amendment No. 115), to change the 
enactment date.                                              
Page S1874
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 63 yeas to 35 nays (Vote No. 38), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on Reid (for Mikulski/Shelby) 
Modified Amendment No. 26.                                   
Page S1882
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10:00 a.m., on Tuesday, 
March 19, 2013; and that the time during adjournment, recess and 
morning business count post-cloture on Reid (for Mikulski/Shelby) 
Modified Amendment No. 26 (listed above).                    
Page S1911
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Economic Report of the President 
dated March 2013 with the Annual Report of the Council of Economic 
Advisers for 2013, received during adjournment of the Senate on March 
15, 2013; which was referred to the Joint Economic Committee. (PM-6) 
                                                             Page S1891
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S1891
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S1891
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                     
  Pages S1873, S1891
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S1892-94
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:           
  Pages S1894-S1909
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S1889-91
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S1909-10
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                            
  Pages S1910-11
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S1911
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--38)   
  Page S1882
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m. and adjourned at 7:45 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday,

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March 19, 2013. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority 
Leader in today's Record on page S1911.)