<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><daily_senate_floor_activity>
<congress>113</congress>
<session>2</session>
<title>Today's Senate Floor Activity</title>
<date>Thursday, April 3, 2014</date>
<intro_text>Mr. John E. Walsh, from the State of Montana, called the 
Senate to order at  9:30 a.m., the Chaplain offered a prayer, and Mr. 
Walsh led the Senate in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of 
the United States of America.</intro_text>  

<section type="journal">
<section_title>The Journal</section_title>
<content>Pursuant to the order of yesterday, the Journal of the 
proceedings of the Senate was deemed approved to date. </content>

</section>
<section type="procedures_dispensed_with">
<section_title>Certain Procedures Dispensed With</section_title>
<content>Pursuant to the order of yesterday,
the morning hour being deemed expired, and the times for the recognition 
of the two leaders being reserved.</content>
</section>
<section type="morning_business">
<section_title>Transaction of Morning Business</section_title>
<content>Pursuant to the order of yesterday,
the Senate proceeded to a period for the transaction of morning business.
</content>
</section>
<section type="legislative_business">
<section_title>Legislative Business (Thursday, April  3)</section_title>
<document>
<docnum>H.R. 3979</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Rep. Barletta</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as 
employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Considered by Senate.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Cloture on the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 61 - 35. Record 
Vote Number: 
<vote_number> 100</vote_number> 
</document_status_text>

<amendment>
<document type="amendment_to_docnum">
<docnum> S.Amdt. 2874</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Reed</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[Of a perfecting nature.]]></document_title> 
<amendment_docnum>  Amendment to H.R. 3979</amendment_docnum>
<amendment_status_text>
Amendment pending in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
<amendment_status_text>
Point of order that the amendment violates Section 311(b) of S.Con.Res. 
70, 110th Congress, raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 2874.

</amendment_status_text>
<amendment_status_text>
Motion to waive all applicable budgetary discipline with respect to 
amendment SA 2874 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 36. Record 
Vote Number: 
<vote_number> 99</vote_number>
</amendment_status_text>
<amendment_status_text>
Amendment SA 2874 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

</amendment_status_text>
</document>
<document type="amendment_to_docnum">
<docnum> S.Amdt. 2875</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Reid</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[Of a perfecting nature.]]></document_title> 
<amendment_docnum> Amendment to S.Amdt. 2874 to H.R. 
3979</amendment_docnum>
<amendment_status_text>
Amendment pending in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
<amendment_status_text>
Proposed amendment SA 2875 withdrawn in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
</document>
<document type="amendment_to_docnum">
<docnum> S.Amdt. 2877</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Reid</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[Of a perfecting nature.]]></document_title> 
<amendment_docnum>  Amendment to H.R. 3979</amendment_docnum>
<amendment_status_text>
Amendment pending in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
<amendment_status_text>
Proposed amendment SA 2877 withdrawn in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
</document>
<document type="amendment_to_docnum">
<docnum> S.Amdt. 2878</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Reid</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[Of a perfecting nature.]]></document_title> 
<amendment_docnum> Amendment to S.Amdt. 2877 to H.R. 
3979</amendment_docnum>
<amendment_status_text>
Amendment pending in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
<amendment_status_text>
Proposed amendment SA 2878 withdrawn in Senate.

</amendment_status_text>
</document>
</amendment>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>H.Con.Res. 88</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Rep. Hoyer</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[A concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the 
Capitol Grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby
.]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
</document_status_text>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>S. 404</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Murray</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[To preserve the Green Mountain Lookout in the 
Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
.]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
</document_status_text>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>S.Res. 384</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Kaine</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate 
concerning the humanitarian crisis in Syria and neighboring countries, 
resulting humanitarian and development challenges, and the urgent need for a
political solution to the crisis.]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by 
Voice Vote.
</document_status_text>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>S.Res. 394</docnum> 
<sponsor_name>Sen. Burr</sponsor_name> 
<document_title><![CDATA[A resolution designating April 5, 2014, as "Gold 
Star Wives Day".]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by 
Unanimous Consent.
</document_status_text>
</document>
</section>
<section type="executive_business">
<section_title>Executive Business (Thursday, April  3)</section_title>
<document>
<docnum>Treaty Doc. 112-4</docnum> 

<document_title><![CDATA[Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter,
and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, done at the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Rome, Italy, on 
November 22, 2009 (the "Agreement")]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Considered by Senate.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Treaty moved through its parliamentary stages up to and including 
presentation of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution of advice and consent to ratification agreed to in Senate by 
Division Vote.
</document_status_text>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>Treaty Doc. 113-1</docnum> 

<document_title><![CDATA[Convention on the Conservation and Management of 
High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean, done at Auckland, 
New Zealand, November 14, 2009]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Considered by Senate.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Treaty moved through its parliamentary stages up to and including 
presentation of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution of advice and consent to ratification agreed to in Senate by 
Division Vote.
</document_status_text>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>Treaty Doc. 113-2</docnum> 

<document_title><![CDATA[Convention on the Conservation and Management of 
High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, done at Tokyo on 
February 24, 2012, and signed by the United States on May 2, 
2012]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Considered by Senate.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Treaty moved through its parliamentary stages up to and including 
presentation of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution of advice and consent to ratification agreed to in Senate by 
Division Vote.
</document_status_text>
</document>
<document>
<docnum>Treaty Doc. 113-3</docnum> 

<document_title><![CDATA[Amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral 
Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, adopted on September 28, 
2007, at the twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Fisheries 
Organization (NAFO)]]></document_title>
<document_status_text> 
Considered by Senate.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Treaty moved through its parliamentary stages up to and including 
presentation of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification.
</document_status_text>
<document_status_text> 
Resolution of advice and consent to ratification agreed to in Senate by 
Division Vote.
</document_status_text>
</document>
</section>

<section type="adjournment">
<section_title>Adjournment</section_title>
<content>By unanimous consent, on the request of Mr. Harry Reid, 
at  5:37 p.m., the Senate adjourned, under its order of today, 
until  2 p.m. on Monday, April 7, 2014.</content> 
</section>
</daily_senate_floor_activity>