[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 99 (Thursday, June 14, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D675-D677]
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                                            Thursday, June 14, 2018

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3929-S3959
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and four resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 3065-3077, S. Res. 547-549, and S. Con. Res. 
40.                                                      
  Pages S3951-52
Measures Reported:
  S. 3071, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2019. (S. Rept. No. 115-274)
  S. 3072, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2019. (S. Rept. No. 115-275)
  S. 3073, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2019. (S. Rept. No. 115-276)
  H.R. 1496, To designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3585 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, 
California, as the ``Marvin Gaye Post Office''.
  H.R. 2673, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 514 Broadway Street in Pekin, Illinois, as the 
``Lance Corporal Jordan S. Bastean Post Office''.
  H.R. 3183, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 13683 James Madison Highway in Palmyra, Virginia, as 
the ``U.S. Navy Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby Post Office''.
  H.R. 4301, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 201 Tom Hall Street in Fort Mill, South Carolina, as 
the ``J. Elliott Williams Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 4406, To designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 99 Macombs Place in New York, New York, as the 
``Tuskegee Airmen Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 4463, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 6 Doyers Street in New York, New York, as the 
``Mabel Lee Memorial Post Office''.
  H.R. 4574, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 108 West Schick Road in Bloomingdale, Illinois, as 
the ``Bloomingdale Veterans Memorial Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 4646, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1900 Corporate Drive in Birmingham, Alabama, as the 
``Lance Corporal Thomas E. Rivers, Jr. Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 4685, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 515 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, as the 
``First Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna Jr. Post Office''.
  H.R. 4722, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 111 Market Street in Saugerties, New York, as the 
``Maurice D. Hinchey Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 4840, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 567 East Franklin Street in Oviedo, Florida, as the 
``Sergeant First Class Alwyn Crendall Cashe Post Office Building''.
  S. 2549, to designate the United States Postal Service located at 
1234 Saint Johns Place in Brooklyn, New York, as the ``Major Robert 
Odell Owens Post Office''.
  S. 2692, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4558 Broadway in New York, New York, as the 
``Stanley Michels Post Office Building''.                    
Page S3951
Measures Passed:
  Stephen Michael Gleason Congressional Gold Medal Act: Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was discharged from further 
consideration of S. 2652, to award a Congressional Gold Medal to 
Stephen Michael Gleason, and the bill was then passed.   
  Pages S3943-45
  Tricentennial of the City of San Antonio, Texas: Committee on the 
Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 503, 
commemorating the tricentennial of the City of San Antonio, Texas, and 
the resolution was then agreed to, after agreeing to the following 
amendment proposed thereto:                                  
  Page S3958
  McConnell (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 2907, to amend the preamble. 
                                                             Page S3958
  Juneteenth Independence Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 547, 
designating June 19, 2018, as

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``Juneteenth Independence Day'' in recognition of June 19, 1865, the 
date on which slavery legally came to an end in the United States. 
                                                             Page S3958
Measures Considered:
National Defense Authorization Act--Agreement: Senate continued 
consideration of H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2019 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 S3932-43
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 125), Reed Amendment No. 
2885 (to Amendment No. 2276), of a perfecting nature. 
                                                  Pages S3935-36, S3943
  Inhofe (for Boozman) Amendment No. 2276 (to Amendment No. 2282), to 
require a report on the permanent stationing of the United States 
forces in the Republic of Poland.          
Pages S3934-35, S3939, S3943
  Inhofe/McCain Modified Amendment No. 2282, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S3932
Withdrawn:
  Inhofe (for Rounds) Amendment No. 2273 (to the language proposed to 
be stricken by Amendment No. 2282), to require a report on 
participation in the Transition Assistance Program. 
                                                  Pages S3936-39, S3943
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 35 yeas to 62 nays (Vote No. 123), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on McConnell (for Toomey) 
Amendment No. 2700 (to Amendment No. 2282), to require congressional 
review of certain regulations issued by the Committee on Foreign 
Investment in the United States.                         
Pages S3933-34
  By 83 yeas to 14 nays (Vote No. 124), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on Inhofe/McCain Modified 
Amendment No. 2282 (listed above).                           
Page S3934
  Chair sustained a point of order that Lee Amendment No. 2366 (to the 
language proposed to be stricken by Amendment No. 2282), to clarify 
that an authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or 
any similar authority does not authorize the detention without charge 
or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United 
States, was not germane, and the amendment thus fell.        
Page S3934
  Reed Amendment No. 2842 (to Amendment No. 2366), to require the 
authorization of appropriation of amounts for the development of new or 
modified nuclear weapons, fell when Lee Amendment No. 2366 (to the 
language proposed to be stricken by Amendment No. 2282) fell. 
                                                             Page S3932
  Chair sustained a point of order that McConnell (for Toomey) 
Amendment No. 2700 (to Amendment No. 2282) (listed above), was not 
germane, and the amendment thus fell.                        
Page S3934
  Reed/Warren Amendment No. 2756 (to Amendment No. 2700), to require 
the authorization of appropriation of amounts for the development of 
new or modified nuclear weapons, fell when McConnell (for Toomey) 
Amendment No. 2700 (to Amendment No. 2282) fell.             
Page S3932
  By 81 yeas to 15 nays (Vote No. 126), 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 bill.           
Page S3943
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reach providing that Senate resume 
consideration of the bill, post-cloture, at approximately 3 p.m., on 
Monday, June 18, 2018; that it be in order for Senator Sanders, or his 
designee, to raise a single Congressional Budget Act point of order 
that lay against Inhofe/McCain Modified Amendment No. 2282, as amended, 
and that a motion to waive then be considered to have been made and 
Senate vote on the motion, without intervening action or debate; that 
notwithstanding the provisions of Rule XXII, all post-cloture time on 
the bill, as amended, expire at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, June 18, 2018; 
and that the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of H.R. 5895, making appropriations for energy and water 
development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2019, ripen following disposition of the bill.           
Page S3959
Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act--Cloture: Senate began 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 5895, 
making appropriations for energy and water development and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019. 
                                                         Pages S3930-32
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed 
to consideration of 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 H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2019 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.                                                        
Page S3930
Messages from the House:                                     
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Measures Referred:                                           
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Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
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Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S3950
Petitions and Memorials:                                 
  Pages S3950-51
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S3951
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3952-53
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S3953-56
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S3948-50
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S3956-57
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S3957-58
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S3958
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--126) 
                                                     Pages S3934, S3943
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 4:33 p.m., 
until 3 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2018. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3959.)