[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 180 (Wednesday, October 21, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                        Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6337-S6381
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 4824-4842, and S. Res. 750.                   
  Page S6376
Measures Reported:
  Report to accompany H.R. 5430, to implement the Agreement between the 
United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 
attached as an Annex to the Protocol Replacing the North American Free 
Trade Agreement. (S. Rept. No. 116-283)                      
Page S6376
House Messages:
Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act: By 51 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. EX. 
207), 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 motion to concur in the amendment of the House of 
Representatives to S. 178, to condemn gross human rights violations of 
ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary 
detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and 
outside China, with McConnell Amendment No. 2652, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
  Page S6343
Point of Order: By 51 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. EX. 208), Senate agreed 
to the motion to table Schumer motion to appeal the ruling of the Chair 
that the Schumer point of order with respect to consideration of a 
nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States this close to a 
presidential election, was not ripe for decision and was not sustained. 
Subsequently, Schumer motion to appeal the ruling of the Chair was 
rejected.                                                    
  Page S6344
Newman Nomination: Senate continued consideration of the nomination of 
Michael Jay Newman, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Ohio.                               
  Pages S6337-43
Motion to Adjourn: By 53 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. EX. 209), Senate 
agreed to the motion to table Schumer motion to appeal the ruling of 
the Chair that the Schumer motion to adjourn the Senate was not in 
order. Subsequently, Schumer motion to appeal the ruling of the Chair 
was rejected.                                            
  Pages S6366-67
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S6374-76
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6376-78
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S6378-80
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S6374
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S6380-81
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S6381
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--209) 
                                               Pages S6343-44, S6366-67
Recess: Senate convened at 12 noon and recessed at 7:24 p.m., until 12 
noon on Thursday, October 22, 2020, after agreeing to the motion to 
recess. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority 
Leader in today's Record on page S6381.)