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“Highlights + Senate” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D101-D102 on Feb. 3, 2014.
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Monday, February 3, 2014
Daily Digest
HIGHLIGHTS
See Resume of Congressional Activity.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S665-S705
Measures Introduced: Seven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1980-
1986.
Page S702
Measures Passed:
Drought Information Act: Senate passed S. 376, to reauthorize the National Integrated Drought Information System, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and the following amendment proposed thereto:
Pages S703-04
Warren (for Pryor) Amendment No. 2713, to reduce the authorization of appropriations amount.
Page S704
Human Trafficking in the United States: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 340, expressing the sense of the Senate that all necessary measures should be taken to protect children in the United States from human trafficking, especially during the upcoming Super Bowl, an event around which many children are trafficked for sex, and the resolution was then agreed to.
Page S704
100th Birthday of Daisy Bates: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 341, observing the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Daisy Bates and honoring her legacy as an American heroine, and the resolution was then agreed to.
Pages S704-05
Measures Considered:
Veterans Medical Services and Benefits: Senate began consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1950, to improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans.
Pages S665-66
Conference Reports:
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act--Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2642, to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018.
Pages S666-99
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following action:
By 72 yeas to 22 nays (Vote No. 20), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the conference report to accompany the bill.
Page S690
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the conference report to accompany the bill at approximately 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, with the time until 12:30 p.m. equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees.
Page S705
Messages from the House:
Page S700
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
Pages S665, S700
Measures Read the First Time:
Pages S700, S705
Executive Communications:
Pages S700-02
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S702-03
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions
Additional Statements
Amendments Submitted:
Page S703
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
Page S703
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Page S703
Privileges of the Floor:
Page S703
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--20)
Page S690
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m. and adjourned at 7:56 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 4, 2014. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S705.)
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