[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 6, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D500-D501]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                             Wednesday, May 6, 2015

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2659-S2697
Measures Introduced: Thirty-eight bills and four resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1200-1237, and S. Res. 170-173. 
                                                         Pages S2687-88
Measures Reported:
  H.R. 651, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 820 Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island, as 
the ``Sister Ann Keefe Post Office''.
  S. 179, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the ``James L. 
Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building''.
  S. 994, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the 
``Staff Sergeant Joseph D'Augustine Post Office Building''. 
                                                             Page S2687
Measures Passed:
  Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act: 
Senate passed S. 125, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof 
Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2020, after agreeing 
to the following amendment proposed thereto:             
  Pages S2670-72
  Leahy (for Lee) Amendment No. 1214, to modify the authorization of 
appropriations.                                          
Pages S2671-72
  WIOA Technical Amendments Act: Senate passed S. 1124, to amend the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to improve the Act, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:        
  Page S2696
  Inhofe (for Alexander/Murray) Amendment No. 1215, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S2696
  Condemning Atrocities Committed by Bashar al-Assad of Syria: Senate 
agreed to S. Res. 173, condemning atrocities committed by Bashar al-
Assad of Syria and his regime.                               
  Page S2696
  National Travel and Tourism Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 170, 
supporting the goals and ideals of National Travel and Tourism Week and 
honoring the valuable contributions of travel and tourism to the United 
States.                                                      
  Page S2697
  National Charter Schools Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 171, 
congratulating the students, parents, teachers, and administrators of 
charter schools across the United States for making ongoing 
contributions to education, and supporting the ideals and goals of the 
16th annual National Charter Schools Week, to be held May 3 through May 
9, 2015.                                                     
  Page S2697
  National Small Business Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 172, honoring 
the vital role of small businesses and the passion of entrepreneurs in 
the United States during ``National Small Business Week'', from May 4, 
through May 8, 2015.                                         
  Page S2697
Measures Considered:
Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act--
Agreement: Senate continued 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 amendments proposed 
thereto:                                                     
  Page S2663
Pending:
  Corker/Cardin Amendment No. 1140, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S2663
  Corker/Cardin Amendment No. 1179 (to Amendment No. 1140), to require 
submission of all Persian text included in the agreement.    
Page S2663
  Blunt Amendment No. 1155 (to Amendment No. 1140), to extend the 
requirement for annual Department of Defense reports on the military 
power of Iran.                                               
Page S2663
  Vitter Modified Amendment No. 1186 (to Amendment No. 1179), to 
require an assessment of inadequacies in the international monitoring 
and verification system as they relate to a nuclear agreement with 
Iran.                                                        
Page S2663
  Cotton Amendment No. 1197 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 1140), of a perfecting nature.                 
Page S2663

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  Cotton (for Rubio) Amendment No. 1198 (to Amendment No. 1197), to 
require a certification that Iran's leaders have publically accepted 
Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.                   
Page S2663
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, May 
7, 2015, with the time until the vote on the motion to invoke cloture 
on Corker/Cardin Amendment No. 1140 (listed above) equally divided in 
the usual form; and that the filing deadline for all second-degree 
amendments to Corker/Cardin Amendment No. 1140 and to the bill be at 10 
a.m.                                                         
Page S2697
  Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the right to appeal act: Senate 
began consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 
1314, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right 
to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-
exempt status of certain organizations.        
Pages S2663-70, S2672-82
Petitions and Memorials:                                 
  Pages S2685-87
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S2687
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2688-90
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2690-94
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S2684-85
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S2694-95
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S2695-96
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 6:28 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 7, 2015. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2697.)