[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 98 (Wednesday, July 10, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D680-D681]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, July 10, 2013

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                              Daily Digest


Highlights

      The House passed H.R. 2609, Energy and Water Development and 
      Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5583-S5624
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1271-1277, and S. Res. 193-194.               
  Page S5620
Measures Passed:
  Honoring the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew: Senate agreed 
to S. Res. 193, honoring the fallen heroes of the Granite Mountain 
Interagency Hotshot Crew.                                
  Pages S5602-03
  South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act: Senate passed H.R. 251, 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.                                            
  Page S5623
  Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act: Senate passed H.R. 
254, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the 
development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the 
Central Utah Project.                                        
  Page S5623
Measures Considered:
Keep Student Loans Affordable Act: Senate continued consideration of 
the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1238, to amend the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 to extend the current reduced interest rate for 
undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans for 1 year, to modify 
required distribution rules for pension plans. 
                                            Pages S5584-S5602, S5603-15
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 51 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 171), 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 motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill.                                   
Page S5595
  Subsequently, Senator Reid entered a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to consideration 
of the bill.                                                 
Page S5595
House Messages:
  Vietnam Veterans Donor Acknowledgment Act: Senate concurred in the 
amendment of the House of Representatives to the amendment of the 
Senate to H.R. 588, to provide for donor contribution acknowledgments 
to be displayed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center. 
                                                             Page S5623
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Margaret Louise Cummisky, of Hawaii, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce.
  Matthew Winthrop Barzun, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  John Hoover, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Sierra Leone.
  Crystal Nix-Hines, of California, for the rank of Ambassador during 
her tenure of service as the United States Permanent Representative to 
the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
  John R. Phillips, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
the Italian Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino.
  Michael Keith Yudin, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department 
of Education.                                            
Pages S5623-24
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S5619
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S5619-20
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S5620
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S5620-21
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S5621-22
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S5618-19

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Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S5622
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S5622-23
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--171) 
                                                             Page S5595
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:53 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2013. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5623.)