[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 12, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D521]
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                                              Tuesday, May 12, 2015

[[Page D521]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2767-S2814
Measures Introduced: Twenty-six bills and one resolution were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1287-1312, and S. Res. 178.   
  Pages S2793-94
Measures Reported:
  Report to accompany S. 995, to establish congressional trade 
negotiating objectives and enhanced consultation requirements for trade 
negotiations, to provide for consideration of trade agreements. (S. 
Rept. No. 114-42)
  Report to accompany S. 1267, to extend the African Growth and 
Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, the 
preferential duty treatment program for Haiti. (S. Rept. No. 114-43)
  Report to accompany S. 1268, to extend the trade adjustment 
assistance program. (S. Rept. No. 114-44)                    
Page S2793
Measures Passed:
  Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry: Committee on Environment and Public 
Works was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1075, to 
designate the United States Customs and Border Protection Port of Entry 
located at First Street and Pan American Avenue in Douglas, Arizona, as 
the ``Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry'', and the bill was then passed.
                                                             Page S2814
Measures Considered:
Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the Right to Appeal Act--Agreement: 
Senate resumed 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 S2785-92
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 52 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 176), 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 motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill.                               
Pages S2785-87
  Senator McConnell entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which 
cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to consideration of 
the bill.                                                    
Page S2787
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at 
approximately 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, May 13, 2015.        
Page S2814
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2794-96
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2796-99
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S2793
Amendments Submitted:                                  
  Pages S2799-2813
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S2813-14
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--176) 
                                                         Pages S2786-87
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 5:44 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2814.)