[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 142 (Thursday, September 12, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D874-D875]
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                                       Thursday, September 12, 2024

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6005-S6039
Measures Introduced: Twenty-six bills and six resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 5029-5054, S. Res. 812-816, and S. Con. Res. 
41.                                                      
  Pages S6018-19
Measures Reported:
  S. 4000, to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization 
Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California. (S. Rept. No. 118-223)
  S. 4755, to reauthorize traumatic brain injury programs, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  S. 4762, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
programs and research relating to autism, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  S. 4776, to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.                                  
Page S6018
Measures Passed:
  Tracking and Reporting Absent Community--Members Everywhere Act:  
Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of 
S. 2120, to direct the Attorney General to include a data field in the 
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System to indicate whether 
the last known location of a missing person was confirmed or was 
suspected to have been on Federal land, and the bill was then passed. 
                                                             Page S6036
  Honoring the Life of Steven D. Symms:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 813, 
honoring the life of Steven D. Symms, former United States Senator for 
the State of Idaho.                                      
  Pages S6036-37
  National Literacy Month:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 814, designating 
September 2024 as ``National Literacy Month''.               
  Page S6037
  Ritz Nomination--Agreement: Senate continued consideration of the 
nomination of Kevin Gafford Ritz, of Tennessee, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.           
Pages S6010-11, S6012-13
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 49 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. EX. 239), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.                   
Page S6013
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Senate 
resume consideration of the nomination, post-cloture, at approximately 
3 p.m., on Monday, September 16, 2024; and that all time be considered 
expired at 5:30 p.m.                                         
Page S6037
  Costello Nomination--Cloture: Senate began consideration of the 
nomination of Mary Kathleen Costello, of Pennsylvania, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 
                                                             Page S6011
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination, and, 
in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition of the 
nomination of Kevin Gafford Ritz, of Tennessee, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.                     
Pages S6011-12
  Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Senate took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legislative Session. 
                                                             Page S6011
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Executive Session to 
consider the nomination.                                     
Page S6011
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 54 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. EX. 238), Laura Margarete Provinzino, 
of Minnesota, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Minnesota.                                           
Pages S6010, S6039
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S6018
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S6018
Measures Discharged:                                         
  Page S6018
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                             
  Page S6018
Measures Read the First Time:                        
  Pages S6018, S6037
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6019-21
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S6021-30
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6016-18

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Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S6030-36
Notices of Intent:                                           
  Page S6036
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S6036
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--239) 
                                                     Pages S6010, S6013
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned, as a further 
mark of respect to the memory of the late Steven D. Symms, former 
United States Senator for the State of Idaho, in accordance with S. 
Res. 813, at 3:30 p.m., until 3 p.m. on Monday, September 16, 2024. 
(For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in 
today's Record on page S6037.)