Senate Floor Activity - Thursday, May 14, 2015

The President pro tempore called the Senate to order at 9:30 a.m., the Chaplain offered a prayer, and the President pro tempore 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 (Thursday, May 14)

H.R. 606 (Rep. Paulsen): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain compensation received by public safety officers and their dependents from gross income.

-- Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.

-- Message on Senate action sent to the House.

H.R. 644 (Rep. Reed): To reauthorize trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions and activities, and for other purposes .

-- Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

-- Passed Senate, under the order of 5/13/15, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 78 - 20. Record Vote Number: 179

-- Message on Senate action sent to the House.

S.Amdt. 1224 (Sen. Hatch): In the nature of a substitute.

-- Amendment SA 1224 proposed by Senator Hatch.

-- Amendment SA 1224 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

S.Amdt. 1241 (Sen. Hatch): To change the title.

-- Amendment SA 1241 proposed by Senator McConnell for Senator Hatch.

-- Amendment SA 1241 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

H.R. 1295 (Rep. Holding): To extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, the preferential duty treatment program for Haiti, and for other purposes.

-- Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

-- Passed Senate, under the order of 5/13/15, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 97 - 1. Record Vote Number: 178

-- Message on Senate action sent to the House.

S.Amdt. 1223 (Sen. Hatch): In the nature of a substitute.

-- Amendment SA 1223 proposed by Senator Hatch.

-- Amendment SA 1223 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

S.Amdt. 1240 (Sen. Hatch): To change the title.

-- Amendment SA 1240 proposed by Senator McConnell for Senator Hatch.

-- Amendment SA 1240 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

H.R. 1314 (Rep. Meehan): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations .

-- Motion to proceed to consideration of the motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote No. 176) agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

-- Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked (Roll Call Vote No. 176) agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

-- Upon reconsideration, cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 65 - 33. Record Vote Number: 180

-- Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

-- Measure laid before Senate by motion.

S.Amdt. 1221 (Sen. Hatch): In the nature of a substitute.

-- Amendment SA 1221 proposed by Senator Hatch.

S.Amdt. 1237 (Sen. Lankford): To establish consideration of the conditions relating to religious freedom of parties to trade negotiations as an overall negotiating objective of the United States.

-- Amendment SA 1237 proposed by Senator Hatch for Senator Lankford to Amendment SA 1221.

S.Amdt. 1242 (Sen. Brown): To restore funding for the trade adjustment assistance program to the level established by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011.

-- Amendment SA 1242 proposed by Senator Brown to Amendment SA 1221.

S.Amdt. 1243 (Sen. Flake): To strike the extension of the trade adjustment assistance program.

-- Amendment SA 1243 proposed by Senator Hatch for Senator Flake to Amendment SA 1221.

S. 1356 (Sen. Johnson): To clarify that certain provisions of the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014 will not take effect until after the Director of the Office of Personnel Management promulgates and makes effective regulations relating to such provisions.

-- Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.

-- Message on Senate action sent to the House.

S.Res. 179 (Sen. Wyden): A resolution designating May 16, 2015, as "Kids to Parks Day".

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

Adjournment

By unanimous consent, on the request of Mr. McConnell, at 6:01 p.m., the Senate adjourned, under its order of today, until 3 p.m. on Monday, May 18, 2015.