[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 17 (Monday, January 28, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                           Monday, January 28, 2019

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


 Chamber Action
  Routine Proceedings, pages S687-S724
 Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 232-248, and S. Res. 32-33.        
  Page S698
 Measures Considered:
 Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act--Agreement: 
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 S688-96
   During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
   Pursuant to the order of January 25, 2019, the motion to proceed to 
the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on 
January 8, 2019, was agreed to.                               
Page S693
   Pursuant to the order of January 25, 2019, the motion to reconsider 
the vote by which cloture was not invoked on January 8, 2019, was 
agreed to.                                                    
Page S693
   By 74 yeas to 19 nays (Vote No. 11), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate upon 
reconsideration agreed to the motion to close further debate on the 
motion to proceed to consideration of the bill.               
Page S693
   A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that all time 
during adjournment, recess, morning business, and Leader remarks count 
post-cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. 
                                                              Page S724
 Message From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
   Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the issuance of 
an Executive Order with respect to Venezuela that takes additional 
steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive 
Order 13692 on March 8, 2015; which was referred to the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-2)                   
Page S697
 Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S698
 Measures Placed on the Calendar:                      
  Pages S687, S698
 Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S699
 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:            
  Pages S699-S701
 Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S697
 Amendments Submitted:                                  
  Pages S702-S724
 Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--11)   
  Page S693
 Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 6:52 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S724.)