[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 1, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D192-D193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                             Tuesday, March 1, 2016

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      See Resume& Congressional Activity.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1105-S1168
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 2607-2615, and S. Res. 381-383.           
  Pages S1134-35
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``2016 Economic Report of the President''. 
(S. Rept. No. 114-218)
  S. 2609, to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require 
the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling 
standard for bioengineered foods.                            
Page S1134
Measures Passed:
  Rare Disease Day: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 380, designating February 29, 2016 as 
``Rare Disease Day'', and the resolution was then agreed to. 
                                                             Page S1167
  Congratulating Iowa Community Colleges: Senate agreed to S. Res. 382, 
congratulating the community colleges of Iowa for 50 years of 
outstanding service to the State of Iowa, the United States, and the 
world.                                                   
  Pages S1167-68
Measures Considered:
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act--Agreement: Senate continued 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 524, to 
authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address the national 
epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use.   
  Pages S1106-32
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 
approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, the motion to 
proceed to consideration of the bill be agreed to, the committee-
reported substitute amendment be withdrawn, and that Senator Grassley, 
or his designee, be recognized to offer a substitute amendment, 
Amendment No. 3378, and that the first three first-degree amendments in 
order be the following: Feinstein/Grassley Amendment No. 3362, Shaheen 
Amendment No. 3345, and Toomey Amendment No. 3367; and that Senator 
Grassley or his designee, be permitted to offer a side-by-side 
amendment to Shaheen Amendment No. 3345, and Senator Leahy, or his 
designee, be permitted to offer a side-by-side amendment to Toomey 
Amendment No. 3367.                                          
Page S1167
Appointments:
  Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the Library of 
Congress: The Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore, pursuant 
to Public Law 94-201, as amended by Public Law 105-275, appointed the 
following individual as a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress: Jean M. Dorton of 
Kentucky.                                                    
  Page S1168
Messages from the House:                                 
  Pages S1133-34
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S1134
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
  Page S1134
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S1134
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S1135-36
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S1136-40
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S1140-67
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S1167
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 6:28 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1168.)

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