[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 180 (Monday, November 6, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1173-D1174]
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                                           Monday, November 6, 2017

[[Page D1173]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7005-S7032
Measures Introduced: Eight bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2075-
2082.                                                    
  Pages S7015-16
Measures Passed:
  TSP Modernization Act: Senate passed H.R. 3031, to amend title 5, 
United States Code, to provide for flexibility in making withdrawals 
from a Thrift Savings Plan account.                          
  Page S7029
  Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act: 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was discharged 
from further consideration of H.R. 1370, to amend the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue 
Department of Homeland Security-wide guidance and develop training 
programs as part of the Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign, 
and the bill was then passed, after agreeing to the following amendment 
proposed thereto:                                        
  Pages S7029-30
  McConnell (for Johnson/McCaskill) Amendment No. 1579, in the nature 
of a substitute.                                         
Pages S7029-30
Messages from the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the continuation 
of the national emergency that was originally declared in Executive 
Order 13712 of November 22, 2015, with respect to Burundi; which was 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
19)                                                          
Page S7014
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the continuation 
of the national emergency that was originally declared in Executive 
Order 12170 of November 14, 1979, with respect to Iran; which was 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
20)                                                      
Pages S7014-15
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the continuation 
of the national emergency that was originally declared in Executive 
Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, with respect to the proliferation of 
weapons of mass destruction; which was referred to the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-21)                 
Page S7015
Engel Nomination: Senate resumed consideration of the nomination of 
Steven Andrew Engel, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Department of Justice.                 
  Pages S7005-11
Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the order of Thursday, November 2, 2017, which 
notwithstanding Rule XXII, be modified to have all Executive Session 
cloture motions ripen following the disposition of the nomination of 
John H. Gibson II, of Texas, to be Deputy Chief Management Officer of 
the Department of Defense; and that if cloture is invoked on the 
nomination of Steven Andrew Engel, of the District of Columbia, to be 
an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, the time post-
cloture be counted as if invoked at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, November 6, 
2017.                                                        
  Page S7005
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 
approximately 11 a.m., on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, Senate begin 
consideration of the nomination of John H. Gibson II, of Texas, to be 
Deputy Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense, under the 
order of October 26, 2017.                                   
Page S7030
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S7015
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S7015
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
  Page S7015
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S7015
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7016-17
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S7017-18
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S7014
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S7019-20

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Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 6:11 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7030.)