[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 144 (Tuesday, September 17, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D889-D890]
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                                        Tuesday, September 17, 2024

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6071-S6110
Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 5060-5076, and S. Res. 822-823.   
  Page S6097
Measures Reported:
  S. 3348, to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and 
Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute.
  S. 4212, to amend the Visit America Act to promote music tourism, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  S. 4343, to establish and maintain a coordinated program within the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that improves wildfire, 
fire weather, fire risk, and smoke related forecasting, detection, 
modeling, observations, and service delivery, and to address growing 
needs in the wildland-urban interface, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.                                             
Page S6097
Measures Passed:
  Southern Border Transparency Act:  Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. 3187, to require the 
Department of Homeland Security to publish various publications and 
reports regarding the number of aliens seeking entry along the southern 
border of the United States, and the bill was then passed. 
                                                         Pages S6085-86
  National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week:  Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions was discharged from further 
consideration of S. Res. 815, designating the week beginning on 
September 9, 2024, as ``National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week'', 
and the resolution was then agreed to.                       
  Page S6109
  Hispanic Heritage Month:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 823, recognizing 
Hispanic Heritage Month and celebrating the heritage and culture of 
Latinos in the United States and the immense contributions of Latinos 
to the United States.                                        
  Page S6109
Measures Considered:
Right to IVF Act: Senate resumed consideration of the motion to proceed 
to consideration of S. 4445, to protect and expand nationwide access to 
fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization.   
  Pages S6075-84
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to the motion to reconsider 
the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill on June 13, 2024.                  
Page S6078
  Senate agreed to the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture 
was not invoked on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill 
on June 13, 2024.                                            
Page S6078
  By 51 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 242), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate upon 
reconsideration rejected the motion to close further debate on the 
motion to proceed to consideration of the bill.              
Page S6078
Jenkins Nomination--Cloture: Senate began consideration of the 
nomination of Rose E. Jenkins, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Judge of the United States Tax Court.                    
  Pages S6084-85
  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 Michelle Williams Court, of California, to be United 
States District Judge for the Central District of California. 
                                                             Page S6085
  Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Senate took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Legislative Session. 
                                                             Page S6075
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Executive Session to 
consider the nomination.                                     
Page S6084
Pennell Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that the motion to invoke cloture with respect to the 
nomination of Rebecca L. Pennell, of Washington, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, be withdrawn. 
                                                             Page S6091

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Court Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that Senate resume consideration of the nomination of 
Michelle Williams Court, of California, to be United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, at approximately 10 a.m., 
on Wednesday, September 18, 2024; and that the motion to invoke cloture 
with respect to the nomination ripen at 11:45 a.m.           
  Page S6110
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 52 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. EX. 243), Mary Kathleen Costello, of 
Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania.                                    
Page S6085
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 54 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. EX. 241), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.               
Pages S6074-75
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S6071
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S6095
Measures Read the First Time:                        
  Pages S6095, S6109
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S6095
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6097-99
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:           
  Pages S6099-S6100
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6094-95
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S6101-02
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S6109
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S6109
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--243) 
                                           Pages S6074-75, S6078, S6085
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:34 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6110.)