[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 54 (Thursday, April 3, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D364-D365]
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                                            Thursday, April 3, 2014

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2135-S2167
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 2203-2213, and S. Res. 410-411.               
  Page S2161
Measures Reported:
  S. 161, to extend the Federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe 
of Chippewa Indians of Montana.
  S. 1074, to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian 
Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper 
Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian 
Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
  S. 1219, to authorize the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians 
Water Rights Settlement, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S2161
Measures Passed:
  Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act: Senate passed S. 404, 
to preserve the Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness 
of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, after agreeing to the 
committee amendment.                                     
  Pages S2151-52
  Humanitarian Crisis in Syria and Neighboring Countries: Senate agreed 
to S. Res. 384, expressing the sense of the Senate concerning the 
humanitarian crisis in Syria and neighboring countries, resulting 
humanitarian and development challenges, and the urgent need for a 
political solution to the crisis.                            
  Page S2166
  Gold Star Wives Day: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 394, designating April 5, 2014, as 
``Gold Star Wives Day'', and the resolution was then agreed to. 
                                                         Pages S2166-67
  Authorizing the Use of the Capitol Grounds: Senate agreed to H. Con. 
Res. 88, authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the Greater 
Washington Soap Box Derby.                                   
  Page S2167
Measures Considered:
Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act--
Agreement: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 3979, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services 
volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared 
responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act, taking action on the following motions and 
amendments proposed thereto:                   
  Pages S2137-51, S2152-57
Adopted:
  Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 2874, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                     Pages S2138, S2150
Withdrawn:
  Reid Amendment No. 2875 (to Amendment No. 2874), to change the 
enactment date.                               
Pages S2138, S2146, S2149
  Reid Amendment No. 2877 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 2874), to change the enactment date. 
                                              Pages S2138, S2146, S2149
  Reid Amendment No. 2878 (to Amendment No. 2877), of a perfecting 
nature.                                       
Pages S2138, S2146, S2149
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 60 yeas to 36 nays (Vote No. 99), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to waive all applicable sections of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 and applicable budget resolutions with respect to 
Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 2874 (listed above). Subsequently, the 
point of order that Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 2874 was in violation 
of section 311(b) of S. Con. Res. 70, the Concurrent Resolution on the 
Budget for Fiscal Year 2009, was not sustained, and thus the point of 
order fell.                                              
Pages S2149-50
   By 61 yeas to 35 nays (Vote No. 100), 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 bill.           
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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 5:30 p.m. 
on Monday, April 7, 2014, all post-cloture time be considered expired 
and the

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bill, as amended, if amended, be read a third time and Senate vote on 
passage of the bill, as amended, if amended.                 
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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 5:00 p.m. 
on Monday, April 7, 2014, Senate resume consideration of the bill, 
post-cloture, with the time until 5:30 p.m. equally divided and 
controlled between the two Leaders or their designees prior to a vote 
on passage of the bill, as amended.                          
Page S2167
Appointments:
  Joint Committee on Taxation: The Chair announced on behalf of the 
Committee on Finance, pursuant to section 8002 of title 26, U.S. Code, 
the designation of the following Senators as members of the Joint 
Committee on Taxation: Senators Wyden, Rockefeller, Stabenow, Hatch, 
and Grassley.                                                
  Page S2167
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 issuance of 
an Executive Order declaring a national emergency with respect to the 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States posed by the situation in and in relation 
to South Sudan; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-38)                      
Pages S2159-60
Treaties Approved: The following treaties having passed through their 
various parliamentary stages, up to and including the presentation of 
the resolution of ratification, upon division, two-thirds of the 
Senators present having voted in the affirmative, the resolutions of 
ratification were agreed to:
  Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate 
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing (Treaty Doc. 112-4) as 
amended;                                                 
Pages S2157-58
  Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery 
Resources in the South Pacific Ocean (Treaty Doc. 113-1) as amended; 
                                                         Pages S2157-58
  Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries 
Resources in the North Pacific Ocean (Treaty Doc. 113-2) as amended; 
and                                                      
Pages S2157-58
  Amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the 
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (Treaty Doc. 113-3) as amended. 
                                                         Pages S2157-58
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Andre Birotte, Jr., of California, to be United States District Judge 
for the Central District of California.
  Randolph D. Moss, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.                  
Page S2167
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
  Page S2160
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S2160-61
Petitions and Memorials:                                     
  Page S2161
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S2161
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2161-62
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2162-66
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S2159
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S2166
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
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Privileges of the Floor:                                     
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Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--100) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 5:37 p.m., 
until 2 p.m. on Monday, April 7, 2014. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2167.)