[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 16 (Friday, January 30, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D85]
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                                           Friday, January 30, 2015

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S667-S675
Measures Introduced: Three bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 324-326, and S. Res. 59-60.                    
  Page S673
Measures Passed:
  Liberation of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp 70th Anniversary: 
Senate agreed to S. Res. 35, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 
liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, 
after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                   
  Page S674
  National Stalking Awareness Month: Senate agreed to S. Res. 59, 
raising awareness and encouraging prevention of stalking by designating 
January 2015 as ``National Stalking Awareness Month''.    
  Pages S674-75
  National Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Month: Senate agreed to 
S. Res. 60, supporting the goals and ideals of observing the National 
Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Month from January 1 through 
February 1, 2015, to raise awareness of, and opposition to, modern 
slavery.                                                      
  Page S675
Measures Considered:
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act--Cloture: Senate 
began consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 
240, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015.                
  Pages S667-71
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed 
to consideration of the bill, and, in accordance with the provisions of 
rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, and pursuant to the 
unanimous-consent agreement of Friday, January 30, 2015, a vote on 
cloture will occur at 2:30 p.m., on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. 
                                                              Page S667
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that 
notwithstanding rule XXII, that if the motion to invoke cloture on the 
motion to proceed to consideration of the bill is agreed to, all post-
cloture time be yielded back, and Senate vote on the motion to proceed 
to consideration of the bill.                                 
Page S667
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Page S673
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:               
  Pages S673-74
Additional Statements:                                    
  Pages S672-73
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 11:56 a.m., 
until 4 p.m. on Monday, February 2, 2015. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S675.)