[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 55 (Monday, April 22, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D347-D348]
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                                             Monday, April 22, 2013

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2819-S2855
Measures Introduced: Three bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 774-776, S. Res. 104, and S. Con. Res. 14. 
                                                         Pages S2844-45
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Summary of Legislative and Oversight 
Activities During the 112th Congress''. (S. Rept. No. 113-33)
  S. 601, to provide for the conservation and development of water and 
related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct 
various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United 
States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 
113-13)
  S. 23, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland water 
within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of 
Michigan. (S. Rept. No. 113-14)
  S. 25, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
Federal features of the electric distribution system to the South Utah 
Valley Electric Service District. (S. Rept. No. 113-15)
  S. 26, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the 
development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the 
Central Utah Project. (S. Rept. No. 113-16)
  S. 112, to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State of 
Washington, to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Pratt 
River as wild and scenic rivers. (S. Rept. No. 113-17)
  S. 130, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
Federal land to the Powell Recreation District in the State of Wyoming. 
(S. Rept. No. 113-18)
  S. 157, to provide for certain improvements to the Denali National 
Park and Preserve in the State of Alaska. (S. Rept. No. 113-19)
  S. 222, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the 
authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation 
projects and acid mine remediation programs. (S. Rept. No. 113-20)
  S. 230, to authorize the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to 
establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs. (S. Rept. No. 113-21)
  S. 244, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot 
Project offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project. (S. 
Rept. No. 113-22)
  S. 247, to establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in 
Auburn, New York, and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National 
Historical Park in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, 
with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 113-23)
  S. 276, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project involving the American Falls 
Reservoir. (S. Rept. No. 113-24)
  S. 304, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
State of Mississippi 2 parcels of surplus land within the boundary of 
the Natchez Trace Parkway. (S. Rept. No. 113-25)
  S. 311, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating sites in the Lower 
Mississippi River Area in the State of Louisiana as a unit of the 
National Park System, with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 113-26)
  S. 347, to establish the First State National Historical Park in the 
State of Delaware, with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 113-27)
  S. 352, to provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase 
Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson 
and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild rivers. (S. Rept. 
No. 113-28)
  S. 354, to modify the boundary of the Oregon Caves National Monument. 
(S. Rept. No. 113-29)
  S. 383, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a 
segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component 
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. (S. Rept. No. 113-30)

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  S. 393, to designate additional segments and tributaries of White 
Clay Creek, in the States of Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a component 
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. (S. Rept. No. 113-31)
  S. 459, to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National 
Historic Site in the State of South Dakota. (S. Rept. No. 113-32) 
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Measures Passed:
  Kenyan Elections: Senate agreed to S. Res. 90, congratulating the 
people of Kenya on their commitment to peaceful elections, as 
demonstrated on March 4, 2013, and calling on Kenyans to come together 
to continue to implement political, institutional, and accountability 
reforms envisioned in the Kenyan constitution, after agreeing to the 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and an amendment to 
the title.                                               
  Pages S2853-54
Measures Considered:
  Marketplace Fairness Act--Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of 
the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 743, to restore States' 
sovereign rights to enforce State and local sales and use tax laws. 
                                                         Pages S2833-40
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 74 yeas to 20 nays (Vote No. 107), 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 motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill.                               
Pages S2833-34
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that all time 
during adjournment, recess, and morning business count post-cloture on 
the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill.          
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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Senator 
Durbin be designated as the floor manager for the consideration of the 
bill.                                                        
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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill, 
post-cloture, at approximately 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. 
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  Bill Referral--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
was discharged from further consideration of S. 437, to authorize the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to transform neighborhoods 
of extreme poverty into sustainable, mixed-income neighborhoods with 
access to economic opportunities, by revitalizing severely distressed 
housing, and investing and leveraging investments in well-functioning 
services, education opportunities, public assets, public 
transportation, and improved access to jobs, and the bill be referred 
to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.     
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Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaties:
  Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery 
Resources in the South Pacific Ocean (Treaty Doc. No. 113-1);
  Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries 
Resources in the North Pacific Ocean (Treaty Doc. No. 113-2); and
  Amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the 
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (Treaty Doc. No. 113-3).
  The treaties were transmitted to the Senate today, considered as 
having been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying 
papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be 
printed.                                                     
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Messages from the House:                                     
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Measures Referred:                                           
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Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S2842-44
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2845-46
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2846-52
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S2841
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                            
  Pages S2852-53
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S2853
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S2853
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--107) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m. and adjourned at 7:09 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2855.)