[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 78 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D579]
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                                            Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3089-S3199
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1390-1408, and S. Con. Res. 17.           
  Pages S3183-84
Measures Passed:
  Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 47, to correct 
the enrollment of S. 178.                                    
  Page S3198
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 S3092-S3175
Pending:
  Hatch Amendment No. 1221, in the nature of a substitute.   
Page S3092
  Hatch (for Flake) Amendment No. 1243 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
strike the extension of the trade adjustment assistance program. 
                                                             Page S3092
  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.         
Page S3092
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 1226 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
repeal a duplicative inspection and grading program.         
Page S3092
  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 S3092, S3107-09, S3112-13
  Brown Amendment No. 1251 (to Amendment No. 1221), to require the 
approval of Congress before additional countries may join the Trans-
Pacific Partnership Agreement.                               
Page S3092
  Wyden (for Shaheen) Amendment No. 1227 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
make trade agreements work for small businesses.             
Page S3092
  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.                  
Page S3092
  Hatch Modified Amendment No. 1411 (to the language proposed to be 
stricken by Amendment No. 1299), of a perfecting nature.     
Page S3092
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9 a.m., on Thursday, May 21, 
2015.                                                        
Page S3199
Messages from the House:                                 
  Pages S3182-83
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S3183
Measures Read the First Time:                     
  Pages S3183, S3198-99
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S3183
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3184-85
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S3185-89
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S3178-82
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S3190-98
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S3198
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 11:57 p.m., 
until 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2015. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3199.)