[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D549-D550]
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                                             Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3979-S4081
Measures Introduced: Eighteen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 4101-4118, and S. Res. 638-639. 
                                                         Pages S4032-33
Measures Reported:
  S. 2381, to require review by the Government Accountability Office of 
screening protocols of the Transportation Security Administration 
relating to breast milk and formula, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 116-238)                         
Page S4032
Measures Passed:
  Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act: Senate passed S. 
4104, to amend the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Improvement Act of 2012, including making changes to the Do Not Pay 
Initiative, for improved detection, prevention, and recovery of 
improper payments to deceased individuals.            
  Pages S3999-S4002
  Paycheck protection program: Senate passed S. 4116, to extend the 
authority for commitments for the paycheck protection program and 
separate amounts authorized for other loans under section 7(a) of the 
Small Business Act.                                          
  Page S4023
  Ensuring Quality Care for Our Veterans Act: Senate passed S. 123, to 
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into a contract or 
other agreement with a third party to review appointees in the Veterans 
Health Administration who had a license terminated for cause by a State 
licensing board for care or services rendered at a non-Veterans Health 
Administration facility and to provide individuals treated by such an 
appointee with notice if it is determined that an episode of care or 
services to which they received was below the standard of care. 
                                                         Pages S4079-80
  Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act Corrections: Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources was discharged from further consideration 
of S. 3758, to amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act of 
2000 to make certain technical corrections, and the bill was then 
passed, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                             Page S4080
  Perdue (for Merkley) Amendment No. 2388, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S4080
  Sergeant Daniel Somers Veterans Network of Support Act: Senate passed 
S. 2864, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a 
pilot program on information sharing between the Department of Veterans 
Affairs and designated relatives and friends of veterans regarding the 
assistance and benefits available to the veterans, after agreeing to 
the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.   
  Pages S4080-81
Measures Considered:
National Defense Authorization Act--Agreement: Senate continued 
consideration of S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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 S3980-93, S3993-98, S4002-11, S4011-23
Pending:
  Inhofe Amendment No. 2301, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S3980
  McConnell (for Portman) Amendment No. 2080 (to Amendment No. 2301), 
to require an element in annual reports on cyber science and technology 
activities on work with academic consortia on high priority 
cybersecurity research activities in Department of Defense 
capabilities.                                                
Page S3980
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
July 1, 2020.                                                
Page S4081
Vought Nomination--Cloture: Senate began consideration of the 
nomination of Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget.                                    
  Page S4011
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination, and, 
in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the

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Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, July 2, 2020. 
                                                             Page S4011
  Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Senate took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Executive Session to 
consider the nomination.                                     
Page S4011
Nomination Received: Senate received the following nomination:
  William Perry Pendley, of Wyoming, to be Director of the Bureau of 
Land Management.                                             
Page S4081
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S4031
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                             
  Page S3980
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S4031-32
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S4033-38
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S4038-42
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S4030-31
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S4042-79
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S4079
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:04 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S4081.)