[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 98 (Monday, June 7, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D600-D601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                               Monday, June 7, 2021

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3943-S3966
Measures Introduced: Five bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1958-
1962.                                                    
Pages S3958-59
Measures Passed:
  Recognizing the Devastating Attack on a Girls' School in Kabul, 
Afghanistan: Senate agreed to S. Res. 229, recognizing the devastating 
attack on a girls' school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 8, 2021, and 
expressing solidarity with the Afghan people.                
  Page S3963
  HAVANA Act: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
was discharged from further consideration of S. 1828, to amend the 
Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to authorize the provision of 
payment to personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency who incur 
qualifying injuries to the brain, to authorize the provision of payment 
to personnel of the Department of State who incur similar injuries, and 
the bill was then passed.                                
  Pages S3963-65
  COPS Counseling Act: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. 1502, to make Federal law enforcement 
officer peer support communications confidential, and the bill was then 
passed, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S3965-66
  Schumer (for Cortez Masto) Amendment No. 2115, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S3965
  National Cancer Research Month: Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions was discharged from further consideration of S. 
Res. 253, supporting the designation of May 2021 as ``National Cancer 
Research Month'', and the resolution was then agreed to.     
  Page S3966
Endless Frontier Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that post-cloture time on the nomination of Regina M. 
Rodriguez, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Colorado, expire at 3 p.m., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021; if cloture is 
invoked on the nomination of Regina M. Rodriguez, the order of Friday, 
May 28, 2021 with respect to 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, be executed immediately following the disposition 
of the nomination of Regina M. Rodriguez; and that the cloture motion 
on the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 7, to amend the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to 
victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, 
ripen following disposition of S. 1260.                      
  Page S3966
Neals Nomination--Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of the 
nomination of Julien Xavier Neals, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of New Jersey.                          
  Pages S3945-56
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 66 yeas to 28 nays (Vote No. EX. 219), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.               
Pages S3953-54
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the nomination, post-cloture, at approximately 10 
a.m., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021; and that at 11:30 a.m., all post-
cloture time expire.                                         
Page S3966
Nominations Received: On Thursday, May 27, 2021, Senate received the 
following nominations:
  Brian Eddie Nelson, of California, to be Under Secretary for 
Terrorism and Financial Crimes.
  Elizabeth Rosenberg, of Vermont, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Terrorist Financing, Department of the Treasury.
  Arun Venkataraman, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and 
Foreign Commercial Service.
  Sarah Bianchi, of Virginia, to be Deputy United States Trade 
Representative (Asia, Africa, Investment, Services, Textiles, and 
Industrial Competitiveness), with the rank of Ambassador.

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  Elizabeth Merrill Brown, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, 
Department of Education.
  Gwynne A. Wilcox, of New York, to be a Member of the National Labor 
Relations Board for the term of five years expiring August 27, 2023.
  Matthew G. Olsen, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
  6 Army nominations in the rank of general.                 
Page S3966
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S3958
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S3958
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3959-60
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S3957
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S3960-63
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--219) 
                                                         Pages S3953-54
Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 7:18 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3966.)