[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 61 (Monday, April 27, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D444]
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                                             Monday, April 27, 2015

[[Page D444]]


                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2419-S2440
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills were introduced, as follows: S. 
1086-1104.                                                   
  Page S2431
Measures Considered:
Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act--
Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 1191, 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 amendment proposed 
thereto:                                                 
  Pages S2420-27
Pending:
  Corker/Cardin Amendment No. 1140, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S2420
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10 a.m., on Tuesday, April 
28, 2015, as under the order of April 23, 2015.              
Page S2440
Prescribed Burn Approval Act--Referral Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that S. 1100, to require State and 
local government approval of prescribed burns on Federal land during 
conditions of drought or fire danger, be sequentially referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and then to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.                   
  Page S2439
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia 
(Treaty Doc. No. 114-2).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. 
                                                         Pages S2439-40
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By a unanimous vote of 87 yeas (Vote No. EX. 166), Dava J. Newman, of 
Massachusetts, to be Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration.                                
Pages S2427-28
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S2431
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2431-33
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2433-34
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S2430-31
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S2434-39
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--166) 
                                                             Page S2428
Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 6:53 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2440.)