[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D567-D568]
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                                              Tuesday, May 19, 2015

[[Page D567]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3009-S3088
Measures Introduced: Twenty-two bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1368-1389, and S. Res. 180-182. 
                                                         Pages S3059-60
Measures Reported:
  S. 1376, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year. (S. 
Rept. No. 114-49)                                            
Page S3058
Measures Passed:
  Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act: Senate passed H.R. 2252, to 
clarify the effective date of certain provisions of the Border Patrol 
Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014.                                
  Page S3014
  National Schizencephaly Awareness Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 181, 
designating May 19, 2015, as ``National Schizencephaly Awareness Day''.
                                                             Page S3088
  Department of Defense Laboratory Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 182, 
expressing the sense of the Senate that Defense laboratories have been, 
and continue to be, on the cutting edge of scientific and technological 
advancement and supporting the designation of May 14, 2015, as the 
``Department of Defense Laboratory Day''.                    
  Page S3088
Measures Considered:
Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the Right to Appeal Act--Agreement: 
Senate continued 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, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:                                       
  Pages S3015-24, S3024-53
Pending:
  Hatch Amendment No. 1221, in the nature of a substitute.   
Page S3015
  Hatch (for Flake) Amendment No. 1243 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
strike the extension of the trade adjustment assistance program. 
                                                             Page S3015
  Hatch (for Inhofe/Coons) Modified Amendment No. 1312 (to Amendment 
No. 1221), to amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to require 
the development of a plan for each sub-Saharan African country for 
negotiating and entering into free trade agreements. 
                                                  Pages S3015, S3026-30
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 1226 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
repeal a duplicative inspection and grading program. 
                                                  Pages S3015, S3017-22
  Stabenow (for Portman) Amendment No. 1299 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
make it a principal negotiating objective of the United States to 
address currency manipulation in trade agreements. 
                                        Pages S3015, S3022-24, S3052-53
  Brown Amendment No. 1251 (to Amendment No. 1221), to require the 
approval of Congress before additional countries may join the Trans-
Pacific Partnership Agreement.             
Pages S3015, S3024-25, S3052
  Wyden (for Shaheen) Amendment No. 1227 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
make trade agreements work for small businesses.     
Pages S3015, S3017
  Wyden (for Warren) Amendment No. 1327 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
prohibit the application of the trade authorities procedures to an 
implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement that 
includes investor-state dispute settlement. 
                                        Pages S3015, S3025-26, S3031-33
  Hatch Modified Amendment No. 1411 (to the language proposed to be 
stricken by Amendment No. 1299), of a perfecting nature. 
                                                     Pages S3052, S3053
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the Hatch Amendment 
No. 1221 to the bill, and, in accordance with the provisions of rule 
XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur 
on Thursday, May 21, 2015.                                   
Page S3051
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and, in 
accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition of Hatch 
Amendment No. 1221 to the bill.                          
Pages S3051-52

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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, May 
20, 2015.                                                    
Page S3088
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the continuation of the 
national emergency that was originally declared in Executive Order 
13303 of May 22, 2003, with respect to the stabilization of Iraq; which 
was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 
(PM-18)                                                      
Page S3056
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  7 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  10 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.                  
Page S3088
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S3056
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S3056
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S3057-58
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S3058
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3060-62
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S3062-71
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S3054-56
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S3071-87
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S3087-88
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 8:15 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3088.)