[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 8, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D621-D622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                            Wednesday, June 8, 2016

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House and Senate met in a Joint Meeting to receive His Excellency 
      Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3599-S3665
Measures Introduced: Nine bills were introduced, as follows: S. 3030-
3038.                                                    
  Pages S3645-46
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees 
of Budget Totals for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017''. (S. Rept. No. 114-
273)
  S. 1935, to require the Secretary of Commerce to undertake certain 
activities to support waterfront community revitalization and 
resiliency, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. 
No. 114-272)                                                 
Page S3645
Measures Considered:
National Defense Authorization Act--Agreement: Senate continued 
consideration of S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                  Pages S3601-04, S3604
Pending:
  McCain Amendment No. 4229, to address unfunded priorities of the 
Armed Forces.                                            
Pages S3601-04
  Reed/Mikulski Amendment No. 4549 (to Amendment No. 4229), to 
authorize parity for defense and nondefense spending pursuant to the 
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.                           
Pages S3601-04
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and, in 
accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition of McCain 
Amendment No. 4229.                                          
Page S3635
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, June 
9, 2016; that notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXII, the cloture 
motions with respect to Reed/Mikulski Amendment No. 4549 (to Amendment 
No. 4229) (listed above), and McCain Amendment No. 4229 (listed above), 
ripen at 11:15 a.m., on Thursday, June 9, 2016.              
Page S3665
House Messages:
  Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act: Senate disagreed to the House amendment to the 
Senate amendment to H.R. 2577, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, agreed 
to the request from the House for a conference, and authorized the 
Presiding Officer to appoint conferees, after taking action on the 
following motions to instruct conferees on the part of the Senate on 
the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill to be instructed to 
insist on the inclusion in the final conference report the following 
motions proposed thereto:                                    
  Page S3633
Rejected:
  By 46 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 93), Nelson Motion to Instruct 
Conferees to insist that any conference report shall not include 
proposals that would rescind existing Ebola emergency funds provided by 
the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 
(Public Law 113-235), and designated by Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as such funds support Ebola 
preparedness and response efforts which are critical to preventing, 
detecting, and responding to potential future Ebola outbreaks, and to 
insist that the final conference report include $510,000,000 to 
reimburse Ebola accounts, as provided for in the Consolidated and 
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 113-235) and 
designated by Congress as an

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emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, for obligations 
incurred for Zika virus response, as such emergency Ebola funds support 
critical initiatives to prevent Ebola outbreaks, such as country 
operations and public health infrastructure in Liberia, Sierra Leone, 
and Guinea, public health research on infection control, including 
detection of person to person transmission of Ebola, and advanced 
research and development of new Ebola vaccines and therapeutics. (A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the motion to 
instruct, having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, was not agreed 
to.)                                                     
Pages S3633-34
  By 56 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 94), Sullivan Motion to Instruct 
Conferees to insist that any conference report shall include the 
provisions contained in Senate amendment 4065 (relating to the 
reconstruction of certain bridges). (A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that the motion to instruct, having failed to achieve 
60 affirmative votes, was not agreed to.)                
Pages S3634-35
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 93 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 92), 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 motion to disagree to the 
House amendment to the Senate amendment, agree to the request from the 
House for a conference, and authorize the Presiding Officer to appoint 
conferees.                                                   
Page S3633
  The Chair was authorized to appoint the following conferees on the 
part of the Senate: Senators Collins, Kirk, McConnell, Murkowski, 
Hoeven, Boozman, Capito, Cochran, Blunt, Graham, Tester, Murray, Reed, 
Udall, Schatz, Baldwin, Murphy, Mikulski, and Leahy.         
Page S3635
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S3642
Measures Referred:                                       
  Pages S3642-43
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S3643
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3646-49
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S3640-42
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S3649-64
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S3664-65
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S3665
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--94) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 9:09 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, 2016. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3665.)