[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 81 (Saturday, May 23, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D602-D603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                             Saturday, May 23, 2015

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3313-S3318
Measures Introduced: One bill was introduced, as follows: S. 1469. 
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Measures Passed:
  Highway and Transportation Funding Act: Senate passed H.R. 2353, to 
provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor 
carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway 
Trust Fund.                                                  
  Page S3316
  Girls Count Act: Senate passed S. 802, to authorize the Secretary of 
State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development to provide assistance to support the rights 
of women and girls in developing countries, after agreeing to the 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.       
  Pages S3317-18
  National Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month: Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions was discharged from further 
consideration of S. Res. 156, expressing the sense of the Senate with 
respect to childhood stroke and recognizing May 2015 as ``National 
Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month'', and the resolution was then agreed 
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  Page S3318
Measures Considered:
USA FREEDOM ACT--Agreement: By 57 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 194), 
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 H.R. 2048, to reform the 
authorities of the Federal Government to require the production of 
certain business records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen 
registers and trap and trace devices, and use other forms of 
information gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and 
criminal purposes.                                       
  Pages S3313-14
  Subsequently, 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 S3314
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 
approximately 4:00 p.m., on Sunday, May 31, 2015, Senate resume 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. 
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: By 45 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 
195), 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 S. 1357, to extend 
authority relating to roving surveillance, access to business records, 
and individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 until July 31, 2015.   
  Page S3314
  Subsequently, 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.                               
Pages S3314-15
Appointment Authority--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that notwithstanding the upcoming adjournment of the 
Senate, the President of the Senate, the President pro tempore and the 
majority and minority leaders be authorized to make appointments to 
commissions, committees, boards, conferences, or interparliamentary 
conferences authorized by law, by concurrent action of the two houses, 
or by order of the Senate.                                   
  Page S3318
Reporting Day--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that notwithstanding the adjournment of the Senate, 
Committees be allowed to report bills and reports on Tuesday, May 26, 
2015, between the hours of 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.                
  Page S3318
Pro Forma Session--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that Senate adjourn until the following dates and times to 
convene for pro forma session only, with no business conducted; that 
following each pro forma session, Senate adjourn until the next pro 
forma session: Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 4 p.m.; and Thursday, May 28, 
2015, at 8:30 a.m.; and that Senate adjourn

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on Thursday, May 28, 2015, until 4 p.m., on Sunday, May 31, 2015. 
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Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Paul A. Folmsbee, of Oklahoma, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Mali.                                                    
Pages S3316-17
  Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Costa Rica.                                  
Pages S3316-17
  Peter Levine, of Maryland, to be Deputy Chief Management Officer of 
the Department of Defense.                                   
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  Routine lists in the Foreign Service.                      
Page S3317
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--195) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 12:01 a.m. and adjourned at 2 a.m., 
until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3318.)