[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 224 (Friday, January 1, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1148-D1149]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                            Friday, January 1, 2021

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate upon reconsideration passed H.R. 6395, William M. (Mac) 
      Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act, the objections of 
      the President to the contrary notwithstanding.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7995-S8016
Measures Introduced: One bill and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 5086, and S.J. Res. 82.                          
  Page S8005
Measures Passed:
  Senate Shared Employee Act: Senate passed S. 5086, to allow Senators, 
Senators-elect, committees of the Senate, leadership offices, and other 
offices of the Senate to share employees.                
  Pages S8005-09
  50 Years of ASEAN: Senate agreed to S. Res. 406, recognizing that for 
50 years, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its 
ten members, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the 
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, have worked with the 
United States toward stability, prosperity, and peace in Southeast 
Asia, and expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States 
will continue to remain a strong, reliable, and active partner in the 
ASEAN region, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute, and the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S8009-11
  Boozman (for Menendez) Amendment No. 2735, to make a technical 
correction to the preamble.                              
Pages S8010-11
  Eastern European Security Act: Committee on Foreign Relations was 
discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2444, to authorize the 
Secretary of State to make direct loans under section 23 of the Arms 
Export Control Act, and the bill was then passed.        
  Pages S8011-12
  Violence in Cameroon: Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 684, calling on the Government of 
Cameroon and separatist armed groups from the English-speaking 
Northwest and Southwest regions to end all violence, respect the human 
rights of all Cameroonians, and pursue a genuinely inclusive dialogue 
toward resolving the ongoing civil conflict in Anglophone Cameroon, and 
the resolution was then agreed to, after agreeing to the following 
amendments proposed thereto:                             
  Pages S8012-15
  Boozman (for Risch) Amendment No. 2736, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S8012
  Boozman (for Risch) Amendment No. 2737, to amend the preamble. 
                                                         Pages S8012-14
  Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act: Committee on Foreign Relations was 
discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4508, to expand the 
number of scholarships available to Pakistani women under the Merit and 
Needs-Based Scholarship Program, and the bill was then passed. 
                                                         Pages S8015-16
Measures Considered:
JUSTICE Act: Senate began consideration of the motion to proceed to 
consideration of S. 3985, to improve and reform policing practices, 
accountability, and transparency.                            
  Page S7995
Veto Messages:
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act--Veto 
Message: By 81 yeas to 13 nays (Vote No. 292), two-thirds of the 
Senators voting, a quorum being present, having voted in the 
affirmative, H.R. 6395, 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, upon 
reconsideration was passed, the objections of the President of the 
United States to the contrary notwithstanding.           
  Pages S8000-01
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 80 yeas to 12 nays (Vote No. 291), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having

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voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the motion to close further 
debate on the veto message.                                  
Page S8001
Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act--Veto Message: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the veto message 
to accompany S. 906, to improve the management of driftnet fishing, be 
considered as having been read and spread upon the Journal in full, and 
that the message be printed in the Congressional Record. 
                                                         Pages S8001-02
Signing Authority--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the Majority Leader, be authorized to sign duly enrolled 
bills or joint resolutions through Sunday, January 3, 2021. 
                                                             Page S8016
First Session of the 117th Congress--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that at 12 noon, on Sunday, January 3, 
2021, pursuant to the Constitution, Senate present the certificates of 
election, swear-in elected Members, and proceed to the required live 
quorum.                                                      
  Page S8016
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to the Constitution, the report of the veto of 
S. 906, the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act; ordered 
to be printed in the Record, spread in full upon the Journal, and held 
at the desk. (PM-63)                                     
Pages S8004-05
Messages from the House:                                     
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Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
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Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S8005
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S8005-06
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S8004
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S8006-08
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--292) 
                                                             Page S8001
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon and adjourned at 4:12 p.m., 
until 11:45 a.m. on Sunday, January 3, 2021. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S8016.)