[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 12, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1289-D1290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                         Tuesday, December 12, 2023

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5901-S5925
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 3464-3479, and S. Res. 493-495.   
  Page S5919
Measures Reported:
  S. 195, to provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community 
for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States 
inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian Reservation that 
were guaranteed to the Community under a treaty signed in 1854. (S. 
Rept. No. 118-129)
  S. 382, to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust 
for the benefit of the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation. (S. 
Rept. No. 118-130)
  S. 595, to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the 
Pueblos of Acoma and Laguna in the Rio San Jose Stream System and the 
Pueblos of Jemez and Zia in the Rio Jemez Stream System in the State of 
New Mexico. (S. Rept. No. 118-131)
  S. 1088, to authorize the relinquishment and in lieu selection of 
land and minerals in the State of North Dakota, to restore land and 
minerals to Indian Tribes within the State of North Dakota, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 118-132)
  S. 1097, to establish the Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement 
National Historical Park in the States of California and Arizona, with 
an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 118-133)
  S. 1277, to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in 
the State of Kentucky. (S. Rept. No. 118-134)
  S. 1657, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
land to La Paz County, Arizona, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 118-135)
  S. 1760, to amend the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and 
Authorization Act of 1989 to include the city of North Las Vegas, 
Nevada, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 118-136) 
                                                         Pages S5918-19
Conference Reports:
National Defense Authorization Act--Agreement: Senate resumed 
consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2670, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, taking action on the 
following amendments and motions proposed thereto:       
  Pages S5912-15
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legislative Session. 
                                                         Pages S5912-15
  By 85 yeas to 15 nays (Vote No. 341), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on the conference report to 
accompany the bill.                                          
Page S5915
  Schumer motion to recommit the conference report to accompany the 
bill to the Committee on Conference, with instructions, fell when 
cloture was invoked on the conference report to accompany the bill. (By 
26 yeas to 73 nays (Vote No. 340), Senate earlier failed to table the 
motion.)                                                 
Pages S5914-15
  Schumer Amendment No. 1373 (to the instructions of the motion to 
recommit the conference report to accompany the bill to the Committee 
on Conference), to modify the effective date, fell when Schumer motion 
to recommit the conference report to accompany the bill to the 
Committee on Conference, with instructions (listed above), fell. (By 47 
yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 339), Senate earlier failed to table the 
amendment.)                                              
Pages S5912-15
  Schumer Amendment No. 1374 (to Amendment No. 1373), to modify the 
effective date, fell when Schumer Amendment No. 1373 (to the 
instructions of the motion to recommit the conference report to 
accompany the bill to the Committee on Conference) (listed above), 
fell.                                                    
Pages S5912-15
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the conference report to accompany the bill, post-
cloture, at approximately 10 a.m., on Wednesday, December 13, 2023;

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and that all time during adjournment, recess, morning business, and 
Leader remarks count post cloture.                           
Page S5925
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 59 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. EX. 338), Harry Coker, Jr., of 
Kansas, to be National Cyber Director. 
                                        Pages S5901-11, S5911-12, S5925
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 59 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. EX. 337), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.               
Pages S5901-11
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S5917
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S5917
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                             
  Page S5917
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S5917-18
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S5919-21
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S5922-24
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S5916-17
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S5924-25
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S5925
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S5925
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--341) 
                                           Pages S5907, S5912, S5914-15
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 6:30 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5925.)