Senate Floor Activity - Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Mr. Brian Schatz, from the State of Hawaii, called the Senate to order at 9:30 a.m., the Chaplain offered a prayer, and Mr. Schatz led the Senate in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

The Journal

Pursuant to the order of yesterday, the Journal of the proceedings of the Senate was deemed approved to date.

Certain Procedures Dispensed With

Pursuant to the order of yesterday, the morning hour being deemed expired, and the times for the recognition of the two leaders being reserved.

Transaction of Morning Business

Pursuant to the order of yesterday, the Senate proceeded to a period for the transaction of morning business.

Legislative Business (Wednesday, April 17)

S. 649 (Sen. Reid): To ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the national instant criminal background check system and require a background check for every firearm sale, and for other purposes.

-- Considered by Senate.

S.Amdt. 711 (Sen. Feinstein): To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes .

-- Amendment SA 711 proposed by Senator Feinstein.

-- Amendment SA 711, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 40 - 60. Record Vote Number: 101

S.Amdt. 713 (Sen. Leahy): To increase public safety by punishing and deterring firearms trafficking.

-- Amendment SA 713 proposed by Senator Leahy.

-- Amendment SA 713, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 42. Record Vote Number: 99

S.Amdt. 714 (Sen. Lautenberg): To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices.

-- Amendment SA 714 proposed by Senator Blumenthal for Senator Lautenberg.

-- Amendment SA 714, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 46 - 54. Record Vote Number: 103

S.Amdt. 715 (Sen. Manchin): To protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.

-- Amendment pending in Senate.

-- Amendment SA 715, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 97

-- Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which amendment SA 715 (Record Vote No. 97) was not agreed to entered in Senate.

S.Amdt. 717 (Sen. Barrasso): To withhold 5 percent of Community Oriented Policing Services program Federal funding from States and local governments that release sensitive and confidential information on law-abiding gun owners and victims of domestic violence.

-- Amendment SA 717 proposed by Senator Barrasso.

S.Amdt. 719 (Sen. Cornyn): To allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.

-- Amendment SA 719 proposed by Senator Cornyn.

-- Amendment SA 719, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 57 - 43. Record Vote Number: 100

S.Amdt. 720 (Sen. Burr): To protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans and their families.

-- Amendment SA 720 proposed by Senator Burr.

-- Amendment SA 720, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 44. Record Vote Number: 102

S.Amdt. 725 (Sen. Grassley): To address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and end straw purchases and trafficking of illegal firearms, and for other purposes .

-- Amendment SA 725 proposed by Senator Grassley.

-- Amendment SA 725, under the order of 4/16/13, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 48. Record Vote Number: 98

S.Amdt. 730 (Sen. Harkin): To reauthorize and improve programs related to mental health and substance use disorders.

-- Amendment SA 730 proposed by Senator Harkin.

S.Res. 101 (Sen. Warren): A resolution condemning the horrific attacks in Boston, Massachusetts, and expressing support, sympathy, and prayers for those impacted by this tragedy.

-- Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.

S.Con.Res. 5 (Sen. McCain): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that John Arthur "Jack" Johnson should receive a posthumous pardon for the racially motivated conviction in 1913 that diminished the athletic, cultural, and historic significance of Jack Johnson and unduly tarnished his reputation.

-- Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.

-- Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.

Adjournment

By unanimous consent, on the request of Mr. Harry Reid, at 6:45 p.m., the Senate adjourned, under its order of today, until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.