Senate Daily Digest — Wednesday, 9/18/2024

Senate convened at 10 a.m., adjourned at 7:22 p.m.

Wednesday, 9/18/2024 — Activity – On the Floor – Votes: 3 – Confirmed: 2

• Legislation: New: 32, Passed: 2

  • Amendments: Agreed to: 1

• Committee — Meetings: 9 • Legislation: Action: 18, Hearing: 2, Markup: 16, Reported: 2

[Daily Digest]
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                                      Wednesday, September 18, 2024

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Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6611-S6145

Measures Introduced: Twenty-six bills and six resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 5077-5102, and S. Res. 824-829. 
                                                         Pages S6144-45

Measures Reported:
  S. 3036, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
State of Utah certain Federal land under the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management within the boundaries of 
Camp Williams, Utah, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
(S. Rept. No. 118-224)
  S. 616, to amend the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation 
Restoration Act to provide for the transfer of additional Federal land 
to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 118-
225)
Page S6144

Measures Passed:
  National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 829, 
designating October 8, 2024, as “National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell 
Day”.
  Page S6150
  Intergovernmental Critical Minerals Task Force Act:  Senate passed S. 
1871, to create intergovernmental coordination between State, local, 
Tribal, and territorial jurisdictions, and the Federal Government to 
combat United States reliance on the People's Republic of China and 
other covered countries for critical minerals and rare earth metals, 
after withdrawing the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, and agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S6184-85
  Hassan (for Peters) Amendment No. 3288, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S6182-85

Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the continuation of the 
national emergency that was originally declared in Executive Order 
13224 of September 23, 2001, with respect to who commit, threaten to 
commit, or support terrorism; which was referred to the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-62)
Page S6141

Jenkins Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that at approximately 10 a.m., on Thursday, September 
19, 2024, Senate resume consideration of the nomination of Rose E. 
Jenkins, of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United 
States Tax Court; and that the motion to invoke cloture with respect to 
the nomination ripen at 1:45 p.m.
  Pages S6185-86

Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By 49 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. EX. 245), Michelle Williams Court, of 
California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of California.
Page S6132
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 51 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. EX. 244), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S6122
  By 50 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. EX. 246), Margaret L. Taylor, of 
Maryland, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State.
Page S6133

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Foreign Service, Marine Corps, 
and Navy.
Pages S6186-89

Messages from the House:
  Page S6141

Measures Referred:
  Page S6142

Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Page S6142

Executive Communications:
  Pages S6142-44

Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6145-46

Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Page S6144

Additional Statements:
  Page S6140

Amendments Submitted:
  Page S6150

Notices of Intent:
  Page S6184

Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S6184

Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S6184

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Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--246) 
                                          Pages S6122, S6132-33, S6133.

Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:22 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 19, 2024. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6186.)