[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 102 (Wednesday, July 17, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D712-D713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, July 17, 2013

[[Page D712]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5717-S5758
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1311-1317, and S. Res. 197.                      
  Page S5755
Measures Passed:
  Charles W. Morgan: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 183, commemorating the relaunching of 
the 172-year-old Charles W. Morgan by Mystic Seaport: The Museum of 
America and the Sea, and the resolution was then agreed to. 
                                                         Pages S5757-58
Measures Considered:
Keep Student Loans Affordable Act: Senate began 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 S5717-18
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the continuation 
of the national emergency with respect to the former Liberian regime of 
Charles Taylor that was established in Executive Order 13348 on July 
22, 2004; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs. (PM-16)                                       
Page S5753
Perez Nomination--Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of the 
nomination of Thomas Edward Perez, of Maryland, to be Secretary of 
Labor.                                                   
  Pages S5737-49
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 60 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. 177), 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 nomination. 
                                                         Pages S5736-37
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the nomination, post-cloture, at approximately 10:30 
a.m., on Thursday, July 18, 2013, and that all time during adjournment, 
morning business, legislative session and recess count post-cloture on 
the nomination.                                              
Page S5758
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 82 yeas to 17 nays (Vote No. EX. 176), Fred P. Hochberg, of New 
York, to be President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. 
                                                         Pages S5718-36
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 82 yeas to 18 nays (Vote No. 175), 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 nomination.     
Page S5718
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S5754
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S5754
Measures Read the First Time:                        
  Pages S5754, S5758
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S5754-55
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S5755-56
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S5756-57
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S5757
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S5757
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--177) 
                                                  Pages S5718, S5736-37
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 7:25 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 18, 2013. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5758.)

[[Page D713]]