WYDEN, RON (a Senator from Oregon)

Amendments

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access (S. 1383), S1116, S1120, S1121, S1123, S1136, S1137, S1138 [17MR], S1213, S1218, S1220, S1223, S1224, S1239, S1243, S1247, S1248, S1249, S1263, S1266, S1267, S1268, S1269, S1270, S1271, S1272, S1273, S1274, S1279 [18MR], S1395, S1396, S1406, S1408 [19MR], S1446 [20MR], S1583 [24MR]

Depts. of Commerce, Justice, and the Interior, energy and water development, environment, science, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 6938), S172, S174, S175 [13JA], S221 [14JA]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion Provider Appreciation Day: observance (see S. Con. Res. 28), S958 [10MR]

Armed Forces: remove from unauthorized hostilities against Iran (see S.J. Res. 104), S733 [2MR]

——— remove from unauthorized hostilities against Venezuela (see S.J. Res. 98), S51 [6JA]

Black History Month: observance (see S. Res. 615), S681 [25FE]

Business and industry: clarify treatment of certain non-controlling developers or providers of distributed ledger services involved in digital assets relative to money transmission laws (see S. 3611), S130 [12JA]

Campbell, Ben Nighthorse: tribute (see S. Res. 585), S257 [15JA]

Career and Technical Education Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 617), S707 [26FE]

CDC: establish grant program to recruit, hire, and train public health nurses (see S. 3604), S115 [8JA]

Credit: extend consumer protections relative to interest rates and credit limits provided to Armed Forces members to all consumers (see S. 3793), S509 [5FE]

Dept. of Agriculture: establish and maintain training program on rapidly evolving methodologies, science, and practices of biological soil health management systems on agricultural land (see S. 3820), S552 [10FE]

——— establish online and delivery standards for retail food stores or wholesale food concerns (see S. 4045), S958 [10MR]

——— provide families year-round access to nutrition incentives under Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (see S. 813), S291 [27JA]

Dept. of Commerce: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘One Year Suspension of Expansion of End-User Controls for Affiliates of Certain Listed Entities’’ (see S.J. Res. 112), S881 [5MR]

Dept. of Defense: provide for inclusion of names of crew members of U.S.S. Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 1969, on Vietnam Veterans Memorial (see S. 3131), S1047 [12MR]

Dept. of Education: require local educational agencies to include mental health and suicide prevention information on student identification cards (see S. 4061), S1009 [11MR]

——— reverse reductions in Federal loan availability for graduate and professional students (see S. 4039), S958 [10MR]

Dept. of Energy: reauthorize water power research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities (see S. 3684), S257 [15JA]

Dept. of HHS: award grants to establish or expand programs to implement evidence-aligned practices in health care settings to reduce suicide rates of covered individuals (see S. 4210), S1614 [25MR]

——— improve access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce transmission of HIV (see S. 3990), S802 [4MR]

——— provide funding for trained school personnel to administer drugs and devices for emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose (see S. 3588), S89 [7JA]

Dept. of Homeland Security: allow undocumented immediate family members of Armed Forces members or veterans who were not dishonorably discharged to lawfully remain in U.S. (see S. 3592), S89 [7JA]

——— limit use of facial recognition (see S. 3779), S489 [4FE]

——— provide civil remedy for any individual whose rights have been violated by officer or agent of U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (see S. 3745), S377 [29JA]

——— provide standards for facilities at which aliens in custody are detained (see S. 3702), S290 [27JA]

Dept. of Justice: prohibit use of Federal funds to compensate individuals who were prosecuted for involvement in attack on U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 (see S. 3582), S49 [6JA]

Dept. of Labor: ensure that certain caregiving employees are no longer exempted from overtime and minimum wage protections (see S. 4081), S1046 [12MR]

——— issue guidance and regulations regarding opioid overdose reversal medication and employee training (see S. 3812), S552 [10FE]

Dept. of the Treasury: require Sec. of the Treasury testify before Congress (see S. 3940), S706 [26FE]

Dept. of Transportation: enhance underride protection on trailers, semitrailers, and single unit trucks and improve motor carrier, passenger motor vehicle, and vulnerable road user safety (see S. 3775), S708 [26FE]

——— establish working group to review and establish guidance and best practices for responding to electric vehicle fires (see S. 4084), S1046 [12MR]

——— reauthorize Federal Lands Access Program (see S. 4135), S1205 [18MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Reproductive Health Services’’ (see S.J. Res. 103), S442 [2FE]

Disasters: ensure that older adults and individuals with disabilities are prepared for disasters (see S. 3628), S162 [13JA]

Employment: allow employees to earn paid sick time to address their health needs, health needs of their families, or to seek assistance relative to domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault (see S. 3869), S609 [12FE]

——— prevent workplace harassment, end mandatory arbitration and pre-employment non-disclosure agreements, expand civil rights protections, empower workers who report harassment, and eliminate tipped minimum wage (see S. 3865), S609 [12FE]

FAA: acquire and install certified airborne position reference tools at air traffic control towers (see S. 3929), S706 [26FE]

Federal agencies and departments: require agencies that use, fund, or oversee algorithms to have office of civil rights focused on bias, discrimination, and other harms of algorithms (see S. 3680), S257 [15JA]

Federal employees: increase rates of pay for General Schedule and prevailing rate employees (see S. 3823), S552 [10FE]

Financial institutions: provide requirements for bulk auction or group sale of certain non-performing loans (see S. 3753), S419 [30JA]

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: reinforce by establishing statute of limitations period of ten years for antibribery offenses (see S. 4029), S915 [9MR]

Greece: independence anniversary (see S. Res. 661), S1615 [25MR]

International Year of the Woman Farmer: designate (see S. Res. 592), S377 [29JA]

IRS: codify Direct File program (see S. 3948), S706 [26FE]

——— disapprove rule relative to beginning of construction requirements termination of clean electricity production credits and investment credits for applicable wind and solar facilities (see S.J. Res. 107), S610 [12FE]

——— improve services provided to taxpayers by providing greater judicial review (see S. 3931), S706 [26FE]

Jackson, Jesse L., Sr.: tribute (see S. Res. 629), S1011 [11MR]

Labeling: establish requirements for quality and discard dates voluntarily declared on food labels (see S. 2541), S916 [9MR]

Maternal Health Awareness Day: designate (see S. Res. 590), S344 [28JA]

Medicare: establish provider directory requirements, and provide accountability for provider director accuracy, under Medicare Advantage (see S. 3750), S377 [29JA]

National Endowment for the Humanities: establish National Council on African American History and Culture (see S. 3890), S610 [12FE]

National FFA Week: designate (see S. Res. 622), S707 [26FE]

National Freedom Day: observance (see S. Res. 603), S552 [10FE]

National Mentoring Month: observance (see S. Res. 600), S510 [5FE]

National parks and recreation areas: prohibit use of image of living political figures on America the Beautiful—National Parks and Federal Recreation Lands Pass (see S. 3735), S377 [29JA]

National School Counseling Week: designate (see S. Res. 596), S489 [4FE]

National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month: observance (see S. Res. 603), S552 [10FE]

Native Americans: recognize heritage, culture, and contributions of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women in U.S. (see S. Res. 650), S1205 [18MR]

Nuclear weapons: express support for continued value of arms control agreements and negotiated constraints on Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear forces (see S. Res. 61), S491 [4FE]

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (see S. 3991), S802 [4MR]

Public buildings: prohibit naming, renaming, designating, or redesignating of any Federal building, land, or other asset in name of sitting U.S. President (see S. 3622), S161 [13JA]

Senate: provide authority to initiate litigation for actions by President and Dept. of Justice officials inconsistent with their duties under U.S. laws relative to Epstein Files Transparency Act (see S. Res. 597), S509 [5FE]

Social Security: exclude from income certain cost of living adjustments for determining eligibility and benefits for disabled individuals for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (see S. 3603), S115 [8JA]

SSI: update eligibility (see S. 4001), S881 [5MR]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: establish Mental and Behavioral Health Career Promotion Grant Program (see S. 3783), S509 [5FE]

Taxation: allow refundable income tax credit for purchase of qualified access technology for blind individuals (see S. 1918), S682 [25FE]

Trade Act: repeal section relating to balance-of-payments authority (see S. 4049), S1009 [11MR]

Transgender Bill of Rights: develop and implement to protect and codify rights of transgender and nonbinary people under law and ensure access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security (see S. Res. 604), S578 [11FE]

Tucson, AZ: anniversary of shootings at ‘‘Congress on Your Corner’’ event and honor survivors, victims, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords for her work to end gun violence (see S. Con. Res. 25), S115 [8JA]

Venezuela: prohibit Federal funding to support oil and petroleum infrastructure without congressional approval (see S. 3621), S161 [13JA]

Whistleblowing: clarify whistleblower protections for duty speech disclosures (see S. 4100), S1055 [16MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Bureau of Prisons: regulate monitoring of electronic communications between prisoners and attorneys or other legal representative (see S. 3850), S577 [11FE]

Centers for Mediare & Medicare Services: establish total nurse staffing hours per resident day and require 24-hour use of registered professional nurses in nursing homes (see S. 3886), S609 [12FE]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: disapprove withdrawal of rule entitled ‘‘Fair Credit Reporting; Permissible Purposes for Furnishing, Using, and Obtaining Consumer Reports’’ (see S.J. Res. 145), S1615 [25MR]

Courts: require notice of criminal surveillance orders be eventually provided to targets, reform use of non-disclosure orders to providers, and prohibit indefinite sealing of criminal surveillance orders (see S. 3918), S681 [25FE]

Dept. of Agriculture: promulgate cybersecurity and digital service regulations relative to use of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (see S. 3949), S706 [26FE]

——— report on competitiveness of U.S. exports of specialty crops (see S. 3915), S681 [25FE]

Dept. of Energy: establish grant program to improve resiliency of power grid to natural disasters and reduce risk of wildfires caused by power lines (see S. 4193), S1614 [25MR]

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: implement reforms relating to foreign intelligence surveillance authorities (see S. 4082), S1046 [12MR]

Israel: condemn conduct of Netanyahu administration in Gaza and impose sanctions to discourage governments from obstructing humanitarian assistance (see S. 3634), S220 [14JA]

Tariff: provide for refund of duties imposed under International Emergency Economic Powers Act (see S. 3905), S651 [24FE]

Taxation: extend clean electricity production credit and clean electricity investment credit based on increases in price of and demand for electricity (see S. 4175), S1580 [24MR]

——— impose tax on damages received by certain officers of U.S. on account of any civil action filed against U.S. (see S. 3817), S552 [10FE] (see S. 4125), S1090 [17MR]

Motions

IRS: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Interim Guidance Simplifying Application of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax to Partnerships’’ (S.J. Res. 95), S543 [10FE]

Notices

Intention to object to nomination of Joshua M. Rudd to be NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command Chief: by, S688 [25FE]

Intention to object to nomination of Sean Plankey to be Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director: by, S443 [2FE]

Intention to object to nomination of Thomas M. Siverts to be Marine Corps Brigadier General: by, S1578, S1584 [24MR]

Intention to object to nomination of Thomas P. MacNeil to be Navy Commander: by, S1578 [24MR]

Intention to object to nomination of Thomas P. MacNeil to be Navy commander: by, S1584 [24MR]

Intention to object to nomination of Vincent J. Noble to be Marine Corps Colonel: by, S1578, S1584 [24MR]

Privilege of the floor

Braun, Zev, S557 [10FE]

Morrissey, Candice, S557 [10FE]

Remarks

Bahrain: anniversary of protests, S606 [12FE]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability’’ (S.J. Res. 84), motion to proceed, S148 [13JA]

Congress: advance policy priorities that will break gridlock (H.R. 1834), S195 [14JA]

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: call for release of report entitled ‘‘U.S. Telecommunications Insecurity 2022’’, S438 [2FE]

Dept. of HHS: Hospital at Home Program funding, S440 [2FE]

Dept. of Justice: require release of documents and records in possession relating to Jeffrey Epstein (H.R. 4405), S750 [3MR]

Dept. of the Treasury: produce suspicious activity reports relative to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates (S. 2746), S748, S750 [3MR]

——— produce suspicious activity reports relative to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates (S. 2746), unanimous-consent request, S750 [3MR]

Depts. of Defense, Education, Homeland Security, HHS, HUD, Labor, and Transportation: making appropriations (H.R. 7148), S440 [2FE]

District of Columbia: disapprove actions relative to decoupling District tax code from certain Federal tax provisions (H.J. Res. 142), S566 [11FE]

Federal aid programs: prohibit individuals receiving public assistance from conducting remittance transfers (S. 3746), S664 [25FE]

——— prohibit individuals receiving public assistance from conducting remittance transfers (S. 3746), unanimous-consent request, S664 [25FE]

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: implement reforms relating to foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, S949–S951 [10MR]

IRS: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Interim Guidance Simplifying Application of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax to Partnerships’’ (S.J. Res. 95), motion to proceed, S543 [10FE]

——— disapprove rule relative to beginning of construction requirements termination of clean electricity production credits and investment credits for applicable wind and solar facilities (S.J. Res. 107), S1597 [25MR]

Minneapolis, MN: shooting of Alex Pretti by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, S303 [28JA]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: enhanced tax credits funding, S148 [13JA], S195 [14JA]

Plankey, Sean: nomination to be Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director, S438 [2FE]

Privacy: prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from obtaining subscriber or customer records in exchange for anything of value and address communications and records in possession of intermediary Internet providers, S304 [28JA], S949–S951 [10MR]

Rudd, Joshua M.: nomination to be NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command Chief, S675 [25FE], S912, S914 [9MR], S949, S951 [10MR]

——— nomination to be NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command Chief, unanimous-consent request, S914 [9MR]

Trump, President: evaluation of administration relative to constitution and rule of law, S303 [28JA]

——— evaluation of administration relative to Iran, S748 [3MR]

Tributes

Pfotenhauer, Kurt P., S868 [5MR]