[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 125 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D928-D929]
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                                            Tuesday, August 4, 2015

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6247-S6325
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills were introduced, as follows: S. 
1919-1937.                                               
  Pages S6295-96
Measures Reported:
  H.R. 719, to require the Transportation Security Administration to 
conform to existing Federal law and regulations regarding criminal 
investigator positions, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. (S. Rept. No. 114-111)
  Report to accompany S. Res. 73, authorizing expenditures by 
committees of the Senate for the periods March 1, 2015 through 
September 30, 2015, October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016, and 
October 1, 2016 through February 28, 2017. (S. Rept. No. 114-112)
  S. 280, to improve the efficiency, management, and interagency 
coordination of the Federal permitting process through reforms overseen 
by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 114-113)
  S. 986, to require the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 
parcels of Federal land for the benefit of certain Indian Pueblos in 
the State of New Mexico. (S. Rept. No. 114-114)
  H.R. 1020, to define STEM education to include computer science, and 
to support existing STEM education programs at the National Science 
Foundation. (S. Rept. No. 114-115)
  H.R. 1531, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide a pathway 
for temporary seasonal employees in Federal land management agencies to 
compete for vacant permanent positions under internal merit promotion 
procedures.                                                  
Page S6294
Measures Passed:
  Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions 
Act: Senate passed H.R. 1138, to establish certain wilderness areas in 
central Idaho and to authorize various land conveyances involving 
National Forest System land and Bureau of Land Management land in 
central Idaho.                                           
  Pages S6270-71
  U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act: Senate passed S. 
1297, to update the Commercial Space Launch Act by amending title 51, 
United States Code, to promote competitiveness of the U.S. commercial 
space sector, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.                                         
  Pages S6323-25
  General of the Army Omar Bradley Property Transfer Act: Committee on 
Armed Services was discharged from further consideration of S. 267, to 
authorize the transfer of certain items under the control of the Omar 
Bradley Foundation to the descendants of General Omar Bradley, and the 
bill was then passed.                                        
  Page S6325
  1890 Land-Grant Institutions Quasquicentennial Recognition Day: 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 232, expressing the sense of the 
Senate that August 30, 2015, be observed as ``1890 Land-Grant 
Institutions Quasquicentennial Recognition Day'', and the resolution 
was then agreed to.                                          
  Page S6325
Measures Considered:
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act--Agreement: Senate continued 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 754, to 
improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of 
information about cybersecurity threats. 
                                     Pages S6256-63, S6263-70, S6271-86
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at 
approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, August 5, 2015; and that the 
time until the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to 
proceed to consideration of the bill be equally divided between the 
Managers or their designees.                                 
Page S6325
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S6291
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S6291-94
Petitions and Memorials:                                     
  Page S6294
Executive Reports of Committees:                         
  Pages S6294-95
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6296-97

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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S6297-99
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6288-91
Amendments Submitted:                                 
  Pages S6299-S6322
Notices of Intent:                                           
  Page S6322
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S6322-23
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:14 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2015. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6325.)