[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 14, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D42-D43]
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                                          Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S299-S334
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1916-
1926.                                                         
  Page S325
Measures Passed:
  Poison Center Network Act: Senate passed H.R. 3527, to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the poison center national 
toll-free number, national media campaign, and grant program. 
                                                              Page S333
  Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based Outpatient 
Clinic: Committee on Veterans' Affairs was discharged from further 
consideration of S. 1434, to designate the Junction City Community-
Based Outpatient Clinic located at 715 Southwind Drive, Junction City, 
Kansas, as the Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based 
Outpatient Clinic, and the bill was then passed.          
  Pages S333-34
Measures Considered:
Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act: Senate began consideration 
of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1846, to delay the 
implementation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood 
Insurance Reform Act of 2012.                           
  Pages S299-S300
Unemployment Benefits Extension: Senate continued consideration of S. 
1845, to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, 
taking action on the following amendments and motions proposed thereto:
                                                          Pages S300-23
Pending:
  Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 2631, relating to extension and 
modification of emergency unemployment compensation program. 
                                                              Page S300
  Reid Amendment No. 2632 (to Amendment No. 2631), to change the 
enactment date.                                               
Page S300
  Reid motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with 
instructions, Reid Amendment No. 2633, to change the enactment date. 
                                                              Page S300
  Reid Amendment No. 2634 (to (the instructions) Amendment No. 2633), 
of a perfecting nature.                                       
Page S300
  Reid Amendment No. 2635 (to Amendment No. 2634), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                       
Page S300
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 45 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 8), Senate failed to table Reid 
motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with 
instructions, Reid Amendment No. 2633, to change the enactment date. 
                                                              Page S311
  By 52 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 9), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on Reid (for Reed) 
Amendment No. 2631 (listed above).                        
Pages S311-12
  By 55 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 10), 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 bill.      
Page S312
  Subsequently, Senator Reid entered a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on the bill.                    
Page S312
Further Continuing Appropriations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time 
agreement was reached providing that at 12 noon, on Wednesday, January 
15, 2014, Senate begin consideration of H.J. Res. 106, making further 
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, that there be no 
amendments, motions or points of order in order to the joint 
resolution; that there be up to 15 minutes of debate equally divided on 
the joint resolution; and that upon the use or yielding back of time, 
Senate vote on passage of the joint resolution.               
  Page S323
Messages from the House:                                      
  Page S324
Measures Referred:                                            
  Page S324
Measures Read the First Time:                          
  Pages S324, S334
Executive Communications:                                 
  Pages S324-25
Executive Reports of Committees:                              
  Page S325
Additional Cosponsors:                                    
  Pages S325-26
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:               
  Pages S326-29

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Additional Statements:
Amendments Submitted:                                     
  Pages S329-33
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                 
  Page S333
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                           
  Page S333
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--10) 
                                                       Pages S311, S312
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:11 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on Page S334.)