[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 114 (Wednesday, July 10, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D717-D718]
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                                           Wednesday, July 10, 2024

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4315-S4527
Measures Introduced: Twenty bills and six resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 4650-4669, S.J. Res. 101, and S. Res. 758-762. 
                                                         Pages S4342-43
Measures Reported:
  S. 3044, to redesignate the Mount Evans Wilderness as the ``Mount 
Blue Sky Wilderness''. (S. Rept. No. 118-189)                
Page S4342
Measures Passed:
  Tragic Building Collapse in Surfside, Florida:  Committee on the 
Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 746, 
commemorating the passage of 3 years since the tragic building collapse 
in Surfside, Florida, on June 24, 2021, and the resolution was then 
agreed to.                                                   
  Page S4334
  Federal Prison Oversight Act:  Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of H.R. 3019, to establish an 
inspections regime for the Bureau of Prisons, and the bill was then 
passed.                                                  
  Pages S4334-37
  Journeyman Lineworkers Recognition Day:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 
760, expressing support for the designation of July 10, 2024, as 
Journeyman Lineworkers Recognition Day.                      
  Page S4337
  National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Month and Day:  Senate 
agreed to S. Res. 761, expressing support for the designation of the 
month of June 2024 as ``National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness 
Month'' and June 27, 2024, as ``National Post-Traumatic Stress 
Awareness Day''.                                             
  Page S4337
  National Day of the American Cowboy:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 762, 
designating July 27, 2024, as ``National Day of the American Cowboy''. 
                                                             Page S4337
  Lake Tahoe Restoration Reauthorization Act:  Senate passed S. 612, to 
reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act.                  
  Page S4337
  Mining Schools Act:  Senate passed S. 912, to require the Secretary 
of Energy to provide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining 
education.                                               
  Pages S4337-38
  SHIELD Act:  Senate passed S. 412, to provide that it is unlawful to 
knowingly distribute private intimate visual depictions with reckless 
disregard for the individual's lack of consent to the distribution, 
after withdrawing the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, and agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S4338-40
  Welch (for Klobuchar/Cornyn) Amendment No. 2248, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                              
Pages S4339-40
Measures Considered:
Reproductive Freedom for Women Act: Senate resumed consideration of the 
motion to proceed to consideration of S. 4554, to express support for 
protecting access to reproductive health care after the Dobbs v. 
Jackson decision on June 24, 2022.                       
  Pages S4328-34
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 49 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 211), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill.                                   
Page S4332
  Senator Schumer entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which 
cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to consideration of 
the bill.                                                    
Page S4332
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the continuation of the 
national emergency that was declared in Executive Order 13936 of July 
14, 2020, with respect to the situation in Hong Kong; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-59)      
Page S4342
Kiko Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the motion to invoke cloture with respect to the 
nomination of Colleen Duffy Kiko, of North Dakota, to be a Member of 
the Federal Labor Relations Authority, be withdrawn, and at a time to 
be determined by

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the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, Senate 
vote on confirmation of the nomination.                      
  Page S4329
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By 50 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. EX. 208), Charles J. Willoughby, Jr., 
of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia.                   
Pages S4315, S4322
  By 55 yeas to 37 nays (Vote No. EX. 210), Anne Marie Wagner, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. 
                                                         Pages S4323-28
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 55 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. EX. 209), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.                   
Page S4323
  Danny Lam Hoan Nguyen, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. 
                                                             Page S4337
Messages from the House:                                     
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Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S4342
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S4343-45
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S4345-47
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S4341-42
Amendments Submitted:                                 
  Pages S4347-S4527
Notices of Intent:                                           
  Page S4527
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S4527
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--211) 
                                        Pages S4322-23, S4327-28, S4332
Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and recessed at 6:53 p.m., until 10 
a.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2024. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4527.)