[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 106 (Thursday, July 9, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D801-D803]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                             Thursday, July 9, 2015

[[Page D801]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4901-S4985
Measures Introduced: Twenty-six bills and four resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1723-1748, S.J. Res. 18, and S. Res. 219-
221.                                                     
  Pages S4952-53
Measures Reported:
  S. 1725, making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign 
operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2016. (S. Rept. No. 114-79)
  S. 1300, to amend the section 221 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act to provide relief for adoptive families from immigrant visa fees in 
certain situations.


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   D801, July 9, 2015, the following language appears: S. 1300, to 
amend the section 221 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
provide relief for adoptive families from immigrant visa feeds in 
certain situations.
  
   Record has been corrected to read: S. 1300, to amend the 
section 221 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide 
relief for adoptive families from immigrant visa fees in certain 
situations.


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 

  S. 1482, to improve and reauthorize provisions relating to the 
application of the antitrust laws to the award of need-based 
educational aid.                                             
Page S4952
Measures Passed:
  United States Cotton Futures Act: Senate passed H.R. 2620, to amend 
the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude certain cotton futures 
contracts from coverage under such Act.                      
  Page S4979
  United States Merchant Marine Academy Improvements Act: Senate passed 
S. 143, to allow for improvements to the United States Merchant Marine 
Academy.                                                     
  Page S4980
  Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act: Senate 
passed S. 1180, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct 
the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
modernize the integrated public alert and warning system of the United 
States, after agreeing to the committee amendments.      
  Pages S4980-83
  E-Warranty Act: Senate passed S. 1359, to allow manufacturers to meet 
warranty and labeling requirements for consumer products by displaying 
the terms of warranties on Internet websites, after agreeing to the 
following amendment proposed thereto:                    
  Pages S4983-84
  McConnell (for Fischer/Nelson) Amendment No. 2214, relating to 
electronic warranties.                                   
Pages S4983-84
  National Day of the American Cowboy: Senate agreed to S. Res. 219, 
designating July 25, 2015, as ``National Day of the American Cowboy''. 
                                                             Page S4984
  Medora Musical 50th Anniversary: Senate agreed to S. Res. 220, 
commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Medora Musical.    
  Page S4984
  Rocky Mountain National Park: Senate agreed to S. Res. 221, 
recognizing the 100th anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park. 
                                                             Page S4984
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 S4904-15, S4920-26
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 227), Murray (for Brown) 
Amendment No. 2099 (to Amendment No. 2089), to amend part A of title IV 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow funds 
provided under such part to be used for a site resource coordinator. 
                                                  Pages S4912, S4913-14
  By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 228), Toomey Modified 
Amendment No. 2094 (to Amendment No. 2089), to ensure that States have 
policies or procedures that prohibit aiding or abetting of sexual 
abuse.                                     
Pages S4904, S4906-09, S4914
  Alexander (for Portman) Amendment No. 2147 (to Amendment No. 2089), 
to promote recovery support services for students.   
Pages S4912, S4915
  Murray (for Manchin/Shaheen) Amendment No. 2103 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to enable local educational agencies to use funds under part A 
of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for 
programs and activities that promote volunteerism and community 
service.                                             
Pages S4912, S4915

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  Murray (for Kaine) Amendment No. 2096 (to Amendment No. 2089), to add 
career and technical education as a core academic subject. 
                                                     Pages S4912, S4915
  Alexander (for Heller/Manchin) Amendment No. 2121 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to ensure timely and meaningful consultation between State 
educational agencies and Governors in the development of State plans 
under titles I and II and section 9302.              
Pages S4912, S4915
  Murray (for Feinstein/Portman) Amendment No. 2087 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to provide for additional means of certifying children, youth, 
parents, and families as homeless.                   
Pages S4912, S4915
  Alexander (for Fischer) Amendment No. 2079 (to Amendment No. 2089), 
to ensure local governance of education.             
Pages S4904, S4915


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   D802, July 9, 2015, the following language appears: Alexander 
(for Fischer) Amendment No. 2079 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
ensure local governance of education. Pages S4912, S4915
  
   Record has been corrected to read: Alexander (for Fischer) 
Amendment No. 2079 (to Amendment No. 2089), to ensure local 
governance of education. Pages S4904, S4915


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  Alexander (for Gardner/Peters) Amendment No. 2083 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to enable local educational agencies to use funds under part A 
of title I for dual or concurrent enrollment programs at eligible 
schools.                                                 
Pages S4922-23
  Murray (for McCaskill) Amendment No. 2092 (to Amendment No. 2089), 
enabling States, as a consortium, to use certain grant funds to 
voluntarily develop a process that allows teachers who are licensed or 
certified in a participating State to teach in other participating 
States.                                                  
Pages S4922-23
  Murray (for Gillibrand/Ayotte) Amendment No. 2108 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to amend the program under part E of title II to ensure 
increased access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics 
subject fields for underrepresented students.            
Pages S4922-23
  Alexander (for Gardner) Modified Amendment No. 2119 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to include charter school representatives in the list of 
entities with whom a State and local educational agency shall consult 
in the development of plans under title I.        
Pages S4922-23, S4984
  Murray (for Casey) Amendment No. 2131 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
improve the bill relating to appropriate accommodations for children 
with disabilities.                                       
Pages S4922-23
  Murray (for Klobuchar/Hoeven) Amendment No. 2138 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
relating to improving student academic achievement in science, 
technology, engineering, and mathematics.                
Pages S4922-23
Rejected:
  By 44 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 226), Daines Amendment No. 2110 (to 
Amendment No. 2089), to allow a State to submit a declaration of intent 
to the Secretary of Education to combine certain funds to improve the 
academic achievement of students. (A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that the amendment, having failed to achieve 60 
affirmative votes, was not agreed to.)            
Pages S4909-12, S4913
Pending:
  Alexander/Murray Amendment No. 2089, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S4904
  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 S4904
  Murray (for Warren/Gardner) Amendment No. 2120 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to amend section 1111(d) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 regarding the cross-tabulation of student data. 
                                                     Pages S4912, S4913
  Alexander (for Kirk) Amendment No. 2161 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
ensure that States measure and report on indicators of student access 
to critical educational resources and identify disparities in such 
resources.                                               
Pages S4923-25
  Alexander (for Scott) Amendment No. 2132 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
expand opportunity by allowing Title I funds to follow low-income 
children.                                                
Pages S4923-25
  Alexander (for Hatch/Markey) Amendment No. 2080 (to Amendment No. 
2089), to establish a committee on student privacy policy. 
                                                         Pages S4923-25
  Murray (for Franken) Amendment No. 2093 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or 
gender identity in public schools.                       
Pages S4925-26


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   D802, July 9, 2015, the following language appears: Murray (for 
Franken) Amendment No. 2093 (to Amendment No. 2089), to end 
discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or 
gender identity in public schools. Page S4925
  
   Record has been corrected to read: Murray (for Franken) 
Amendment No. 2093 (to Amendment No. 2089), to end discrimination 
based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity 
in public schools. Pages S4925-26


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  Murray (for Kaine) Amendment No. 2118 (to Amendment No. 2089), to 
amend the State accountability system under section 1113(b)(3) 
regarding the measures used to ensure that students are ready to enter 
postsecondary education or the workforce without the need for 
postsecondary remediation.                               
Pages S4925-26


 =========================== NOTE =========================== 

  
   D802, July 9, 2015, the following language appears: Murray (for 
Kaine) Amendment No. 2118 (to Amendment No. 2089), to amend the 
State accountability system under section 1113(b)(3) regarding the 
measures used to ensure that students are ready to enter 
postsecondary education or the workforce without the need for 
postsecondary remediation. Page S4925
  
   Record has been corrected to read: Murray (for Kaine) Amendment 
No. 2118 (to Amendment No. 2089), to amend the State 
accountability system under section 1113(b)(3) regarding the 
measures used to ensure that students are ready to enter 
postsecondary education or the workforce without the need for 
postsecondary remediation. Pages S4925-26


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 

  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 5:30 
p.m., on Monday, July 13, 2015, Senate vote on or in relation to the 
following amendments, with no second-degree amendments in order to any 
of the amendments prior to the votes: Alexander (for Hatch/Markey) 
Amendment No. 2080 (to Amendment No. 2089) (listed above), and Murray 
(for Kaine) Amendment No. 2118 (to Amendment No. 2089) (listed above). 
                                                             Page S4926
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 
approximately 4 p.m., on Monday, July 13, 2015, Senate resume 
consideration of the bill.                                   
Page S4984
House Messages:
  National Defense Authorization Act: Senate insisted on its amendment 
to H.R. 1735, to authorize

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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, agreed to the request of the House for 
a conference, and authorized the Presiding Officer to appoint 
conferees, after taking action on the following motions and motion to 
instruct conferees proposed thereto:                     
  Pages S4915-20
Adopted:
  McConnell motion to insist upon the Senate amendment, agree to the 
request by the House for a conference, and authorize the Presiding 
Officer to appoint conferees.                                
Page S4919
Rejected:
  By 44 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 230), Reed Motion to Instruct 
Conferees to insist that the final conference report fully fund the 
President's budget request for the Department of Defense, including 
$534.3 billion in base budget funding and $50.9 billion in Overseas 
Contingency Operations budget funding, thereby supporting the 
bipartisan view that the funding caps imposed by the Budget Control Act 
of 2011 should be eliminated or increased in proportionally equal 
amounts for the revised security and non-security spending categories. 
                                                         Pages S4919-20
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 81 yeas to 15 nays (Vote No. 229), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on the McConnell motion to insist 
upon the Senate amendment, agree to the request by the House for a 
conference, and authorize the Presiding Officer to appoint conferees. 
                                                             Page S4919
  The Chair was authorized to appoint the following conferees on the 
part of the Senate: Senators McCain, Inhofe, Sessions, Wicker, Ayotte, 
Fischer, Cotton, Rounds, Graham, Reed, Nelson, Manchin, Gillibrand, 
Donnelly, Hirono, and Kaine.                                 
Page S4920
U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors--Agreement: A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing that the letter of resignation 
from the United States Air Force Academy Board of Visitors be printed 
in the record.                                               
  Page S4984
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Darlene Michele Soltys, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for 
the term of fifteen years.
  52 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.                  
Page S4984
Nomination Discharged: The following nomination was discharged from 
further committee consideration and placed on the Executive Calendar:
  Monica C. Regalbuto, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Energy (Environmental Management), which was sent to the Senate on 
February 25, 2015, from the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources.                                               
Pages S4984-85
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S4950
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S4950-52
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S4952
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S4953-56
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S4956-63
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S4948-50
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S4963-79
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S4979
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S4979
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--230) 
                                       Pages S4913, S4914, S4919, S4920
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 6:34 p.m., 
until 3 p.m. on Monday, July 13, 2015. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4984.)