[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 8, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D790-D791]
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                                            Wednesday, July 8, 2015

[[Page D790]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4805-S4899
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1715-1722, and S. Res. 217-218.           
  Pages S4840-41
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees 
of Budget Totals from the Concurrent resolution for Fiscal Year 2016''. 
(S. Rept. No. 114-78)                                        
Page S4840
Measures Passed:
  First Class William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 
728, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 7050 Highway BB in Cedar Hill, Missouri, as the ``Sergeant 
First Class William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office.''             
  Page S4894


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   D790, July 8, 2015, the following language appears: First Class 
William B. Woods,Jr. Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 728, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 7050 Highway BB in Cedar Hill, Missouri, as the ``Sergeant 
First Class William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office. Page S4894
  
   Record has been corrected to read: First Class William B. 
Woods, Jr. Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 728, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7050 
Highway BB in Cedar Hill, Missouri, as the ``Sergeant First Class 
William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office.'' Page S4894


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  Floresville Veterans Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 891, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
141 Paloma Drive in Floresville, Texas, as the ``Floresville Veterans 
Post Office Building''.                                      
  Page S4894
  First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 1326, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, Florida, as the ``Sergeant First 
Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post Office''.                      
  Page S4894
  Herman Badillo Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 1350, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 East 167th 
Street in Bronx, New York, as the ``Herman Badillo Post Office 
Building''.                                                  
  Page S4894
  His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama 80th Birthday: Committee on the 
Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 200, 
wishing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama a happy 80th birthday on July 
6, 2015, and recognizing the outstanding contributions His Holiness has 
made to the promotion of nonviolence, human rights, interfaith 
dialogue, environmental awareness, and democracy, and the resolution 
was then agreed to.                                          
  Page S4894
  U.S. Women's National Team 2015 FIFA World Cup: Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 218, congratulating the United States Women's National Team for 
winning the 2015 FIFA World Cup.                         
  Pages S4894-95
Measures Considered:
Every Child Achieves Act--Agreement: Senate continued consideration of 
S. 1177, to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 to ensure that every child achieves, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:         
  Pages S4806-16, S4816-31
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 222), Murray (for Reed/
Cochran) Amendment No. 2085 (to Amendment No. 2089), to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 regarding school 
librarians and effective school library programs.    
Pages S4806, S4816
  Murray (for Warner) Amendment No. 2086 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
enable the use of certain State and local administrative funds for 
fiscal support teams.                                
Pages S4806, S4816
  Alexander (for Rounds/Udall) Amendment No. 2078 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to require the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study regarding elementary and secondary 
education in rural or poverty areas of Indian country. 
                                                     Pages S4806, S4816
  By 56 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. 224), Murray (for Tester) Amendment 
No. 2107 (to Amendment No. 2089), to restore sections of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965.              
Pages S4827, S4830-31
  Murray/Mikulski Amendment No. 2124 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
require schools to collect and report data on interscholastic sports. 
                                                     Pages S4827, S4831
  Murray (for Bennet) Amendment No. 2115 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
provide for a study on increasing the effectiveness of existing 
services and programs intended to benefit children. 
                                                     Pages S4828, S4831
Rejected:
  By 47 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 223), Murray (for Hirono/Heller) 
Amendment No. 2109 (to

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Amendment No. 2089), to amend section 1111(b)(2)(B)(xi) to provide for 
additional disaggregation for local educational agencies with a total 
of not less than 1,000 Asian and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 
students.                                            
Pages S4827, S4830
  By 45 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 225), Alexander Amendment No. 2139 
(to Amendment No. 2089), to allow States to let Federal funds for the 
education of disadvantaged children follow low-income children to the 
accredited or otherwise State-approved public school, private school, 
or supplemental educational services program they attend. (A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having 
failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, was not agreed to.) 
                                                     Pages S4827, S4831
Pending:
  Alexander/Murray Amendment No. 2089, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S4806
  Alexander (for Fischer) Amendment No. 2079 (to Amendment No. 2089), 
to ensure local governance of education.                     
Page S4806
  Murray (for Peters) Amendment No. 2095 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
allow local educational agencies to use parent and family engagement 
funds for financial literacy activities.                     
Page S4806
  Toomey Amendment No. 2094 (to Amendment No. 2089), to protect our 
children from convicted pedophiles, child molesters, and other sex 
offenders infiltrating our schools and from schools ``passing the 
trash''--helping pedophiles obtain jobs at other schools.    
Page S4806
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, 
July, 9, 2015.                                               
Page S4895
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Anthony G. Collins, of New York, to be a Member of the Advisory Board 
of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
  Brad R. Carson, of Oklahoma, to be Under Secretary of Defense for 
Personnel and Readiness.
  Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be Permanent 
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization of 
American States, with the rank of Ambassador.
  Peter William Bodde, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Libya.
  Catherine Ebert-Gray, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Independent State of Papua New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands 
and Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu.
  Dennis B. Hankins, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Guinea.
  G. Kathleen Hill, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Malta.
  Elisabeth I. Millard, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Tajikistan.
  Mark Philip Cohen, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board for the term of seven years expiring March 1, 2021.
  Routine lists in the Army, Coast Guard, Foreign Service, and Navy. 
                                                         Pages S4896-99
Nomination Withdrawn: Senate received notification of withdrawal of the 
following nomination:
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.             
Page S4899
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S4839
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S4839
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                             
  Page S4839
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S4839-40
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S4841-43
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S4843-44
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S4837-38
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S4844-94
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S4894
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S4894
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--225) 
                                                  Pages S4816, S4830-31
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:18 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 9, 2015. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4895.)