[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 7 (Monday, January 14, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D37]
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                                           Monday, January 14, 2019

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S165-S186
Measures Introduced: Three bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 112-114, and S. Res. 17.                          
  Page S181
Measures Passed:
  Congratulating the North Dakota State University Football Team: 
Senate agreed to S. Res. 17, congratulating the North Dakota State 
University football team for winning the 2018 National Collegiate 
Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision 
title.                                                        
  Page S182
Measures Considered:
Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act: Senate resumed 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1, to 
make improvements to certain defense and security assistance provisions 
and to authorize the appropriation of funds to Israel, to reauthorize 
the United States-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act of 2015, and to halt 
the wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people.             
  Pages S166-79
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 50 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 3), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill.                                    
Page S174
  Senator McConnell entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which 
cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to consideration of 
the bill.                                                     
Page S174
Appointments:
  National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence: The Chair, 
pursuant to Public Law 115-232, on behalf of the Democratic Leader of 
the Senate and the Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on 
Intelligence, appointed the following individual as a member of the 
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence: Christopher A. 
R. Darby of New Hampshire vice Senator Heinrich.              
  Page S182
Messages from the House:                                      
  Page S180
Measures Referred:                                            
  Page S180
Measures Read the First Time:                             
  Pages S180-81
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                     
  Page S181
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Page S181
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:                   
  Page S181
Additional Statements:                                        
  Page S180
Privileges of the Floor:                                      
  Page S181
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--3)     
  Page S174
Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 7:50 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S182.)