[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 83 (Thursday, May 13, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D512-D513]
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                                             Thursday, May 13, 2021

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2499-S2531
Measures Introduced: Forty-nine bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1603-1651, and S. Res. 212-216. 
                                                         Pages S2521-23
Measures Reported:
  S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation 
in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology 
hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute.                               
Page S2521
Measures Passed:
  Alaska Tourism Recovery Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation was discharged from further consideration of S. 593, to 
restrict the imposition by the Secretary of Homeland Security of fines, 
penalties, duties, or tariffs applicable only to coastwise voyages, or 
prohibit otherwise qualified non-United States citizens from serving as 
crew, on specified vessels transporting passengers between the State of 
Washington and the State of Alaska, to address a Canadian cruise ship 
ban and the extraordinary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Alaskan 
communities, and the bill was then passed, after agreeing to the 
following amendment proposed thereto:                    
  Pages S2510-15
  Murkowski Amendment No. 1492, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S2510
  National Senior Fraud Awareness Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 214, 
supporting the designation of May 13, 2021, as ``National Senior Fraud 
Awareness Day'' to raise awareness about the increasing number of 
fraudulent scams targeted at seniors in the United States, to encourage 
the implementation of policies to prevent those scams from happening, 
and to improve protections from those scams for seniors. 
                                                         Pages S2530-31
  National Police Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 215, designating the 
week of May 9 through May 15, 2021, as ``National Police Week''. 
                                                             Page S2531
Measures Considered:
Endless Frontier Act--Agreement: Senate began consideration of the 
motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1260, to establish a new 
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science 
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require 
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, 
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical 
supply chain resiliency program.                         
  Pages S2504-10
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed 
to consideration of the bill, and, in accordance with the provisions of 
Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, and pursuant to the 
unanimous-consent agreement of Thursday, May 13, 2021, a vote on 
cloture will occur at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, May 17, 2021.    
Page S2504
  Prior to the consideration of the motion to proceed, Senate took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legislative Session. 
                                                             Page S2504
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 
approximately 3 p.m., on Monday, May 17, 2021, Senate resume 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill; 
and that the cloture motion on the motion to proceed to consideration 
of the bill filed during today's session ripen at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, 
May 17, 2021.                                                
Page S2531
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By 59 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. EX. 190), Amber Faye McReynolds, of 
Colorado, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service for a 
term expiring December 8, 2026.                          
Pages S2501-04
  By 89 yeas to 7 nays (Vote No. EX. 191), Donet Dominic Graves, Jr., 
of Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce.                 
Page S2504
  Jewel Hairston Bronaugh, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Agriculture.                                                 
Page S2531
Nomination Received: Senate received the following nomination:
  Catherine Elizabeth Lhamon, of California, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Civil Rights, Department of Education.                   
Page S2531

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Messages from the House:                                 
  Pages S2517-18
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S2518
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                             
  Page S2518
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S2518-20
Petitions and Memorials:                                 
  Pages S2520-21
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S2521
Notice of a Tie Vote Under S. Res. 27:                       
  Page S2516
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2523-25
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2525-29
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S2517
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S2529-30
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S2530
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--191) 
                                                         Pages S2503-04
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m. and adjourned at 6:05 p.m., 
until 3 p.m. on Monday, May 17, 2021. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2531.)