[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 12 (Thursday, January 21, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                         Thursday, January 21, 2021

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S75-S94
Measures Reported:
  S. 12, to provide for an exception to a limitation against 
appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of 
relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed 
Forces.                                                        
Page S91
Measures Passed:
  DoD Waiver: By 69 yeas to 27 nays (Vote No. 4), Senate passed H.R. 
335, to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of 
persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from 
active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.
  (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the bill, 
having achieved 60 affirmatives votes, pass.)              
Pages S86-87
Inaugural Ceremony Proceedings--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that the Inaugural Ceremony Proceedings 
be printed in the Record.                                  
  Pages S75-79
Austin Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was 
reached providing that at approximately 10 a.m., on Friday, January 22, 
2021, Senate begin consideration of the nomination of Lloyd James 
Austin, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Defense; that there be 10 
minutes for debate on the nomination, equally divided in the usual 
form; that upon the use or yielding back of time, Senate vote without 
intervening action or debate, on confirmation of the nomination. 
                                                               Page S86
Messages from the House:                                       
  Page S91
Executive Communications:                                      
  Page S91
Executive Reports of Committees:                               
  Page S91
Additional Statements:                                     
  Pages S90-91
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                            
  Page S91
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--4)      
  Page S87
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon and adjourned at 6:14 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Friday, January 22, 2021. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S94.)