Volume 161, No. 11 covering the 1st Session of the 114th Congress (2015 - 2016) was published by the Congressional Record.
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“Senate” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D51-D53 on Jan. 22, 2015.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S367-S445
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills and six resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 231-249, and S. Res. 33-38.
Pages S420-21
Measures Reported:
S. Res. 33, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
S. Res. 34, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Finance.
S. Res. 36, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on the Judiciary.
Page S420
Measures Passed:
Death of former Senator Wendell H. Ford: Senate agreed to S. Res. 38, relative to the death of Wendell H. Ford, former United States Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Page S445
Measures Considered:
Keystone XL Pipeline--Agreement: Senate continued consideration of S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S372-S408
Adopted:
By 75 yeas to 23 nays (Vote No. 18), Murkowski Amendment No. 123 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of the Senate that all forms of unrefined and unprocessed petroleum should be subject to the nominal per-barrel excise tax associated with the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having achieved 60 affirmatives votes, be agreed to.)
Pages S377-82, S390, S394-95
By 64 yeas to 33 nays (Vote No. 21), Murkowski (for Cornyn) Modified Amendment No. 126 (to Amendment No. 2), to ensure private property is protected as guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
Pages S391, S396-97
Rejected:
By 55 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 13), Boxer Amendment No. 113 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of Congress regarding federally protected land. (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, the amendment was not agreed to.)
Pages S391-92
By 54 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 14), Fischer Modified Amendment No. 18 (to Amendment No. 2), to provide limits on the designation of new federally protected land. (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, the amendment was not agreed to.)
Pages S377-82, S392
Cantwell (for Manchin) Amendment No. 99 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of Congress regarding climate change. (By 53 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 15), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S391, S392-93
Sanders Amendment No. 24 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of Congress regarding climate change. (By 56 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 16), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S375-77, S393-94
By 51 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 17), Lee Amendment No. 71 (to Amendment No. 2), to require a procedure for issuing permits to drill.
(A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, the amendment was not agreed to.)
Pages S382-90, S394
By 50 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 19), Wyden Amendment No. 27 (to Amendment No. 2), to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that products derived from tar sands are crude oil for purposes of the Federal excise tax on petroleum. (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, the amendment was not agreed to.)
Pages S395-96
By 51 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 20), Murkowski (for Blunt/Inhofe) Modified Amendment No. 78 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of the Senate regarding the conditions for the President entering into bilateral or other international agreements regarding greenhouse gas emissions without proper study of any adverse economic effects, including job losses and harm to the industrial sector, and without the approval of the Senate. (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, the amendment was not agreed to.)
Pages S390-91, S396
By 43 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 22), Menendez/Cantwell Modified Amendment No. 72 (to Amendment No. 2), to ensure private property cannot be seized through condemnation or eminent domain for the private gain of a foreign-owned business entity.
Pages S391, S397-98
Markey Amendment No. 25 (to Amendment No. 2), to ensure that products derived from tar sands are treated as crude oil for purposes of the Federal excise tax on petroleum. (By 53 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 24), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S402-03, S406
Carper Amendment No. 121 (to Amendment No. 2), to impose a fee of 8 cents per barrel on oil transported through the pipeline. (By 57 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 25), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S402, S406
Whitehouse Amendment No. 28 (to Amendment No. 2), to require campaign finance disclosures for certain persons benefitting from tar sands development. (By 52 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 26), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S400-01, S406-07
Leahy Amendment No. 30 (to Amendment No. 2), to strike a provision relating to judicial review. (By 53 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. 27), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S400, S407
Reed Amendment No. 74 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of the Senate that the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program should be funded at not less than $4,700,000,000 annually. (By 49 yeas to 45 nays
(Vote No. 28), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S399, S407
Pending:
Murkowski Amendment No. 2, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S372
Vitter/Cassidy Modified Amendment No. 80 (to Amendment No. 2), to provide for the distribution of revenues from certain areas of the outer Continental Shelf.
Page S372
Murkowski (for Sullivan) Amendment No. 67 (to Amendment No. 2), to restrict the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to arm agency personnel.
Page S398
Cardin Amendment No. 75 (to Amendment No. 2), to provide communities that rely on drinking water from a source that may be affected by a tar sands spill from the Keystone XL pipeline an analysis of the potential risks to public health and the environment from a leak or rupture of the pipeline.
Page S398
Murkowski Amendment No. 98 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of Congress relating to adaptation projects in the United States Arctic region and rural communities.
Page S399
Flake Amendment No. 103 (to Amendment No. 2), to require the evaluation and consolidation of duplicative green building programs.
Pages S399-S400
Cruz Amendment No. 15 (to Amendment No. 2), to promote economic growth and job creation by increasing exports.
Page S399
Moran/Cruz Amendment No. 73 (to Amendment No. 2), to delist the lesser prairie-chicken as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
Pages S401-02, S403-04
Daines Amendment No. 132 (to Amendment No. 2), to express the sense of Congress regarding the designation of National Monuments.
Page S402
A motion was entered to close further debate on the Murkowski Amendment No. 2 (listed above), and, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Monday, January 26, 2015.
Page S407
A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition of Murkowski Amendment No. 2 (listed above).
Pages S407-08
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at approximately 4:30 p.m., on Monday, January 26, 2015, Senate resume consideration of the bill, and that notwithstanding the adjournment of the Senate, the filing deadline for first-degree amendments be at 3:00 p.m. and the filing deadline for second-degree amendments be at 5:00 p.m., on Monday, January 26, 2015.
Page S445
Motion to Instruct the Sergeant at Arms: By 89 yeas to 5 nays (Vote No. 23), Senate agreed to the motion to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to request the attendance of absent Senators.
Page S405
Messages from the House:
Page S419
Executive Communications:
Pages S419-20
Executive Reports of Committees:
Page S420
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On page D52, January 22, 2015 the following language appears: Executive Communications: Pages S419-20 Additional Cosponsors: Pages S421-22
The online Record has been corrected to read: Executive Communications: Pages S419-20 Executive Reports of Committees: Page S420 Additional Cosponsors: Pages S421-22
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Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S421-22
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S422-27
Additional Statements:
Pages S418-19
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S427-44
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Pages S444-45
Privileges of the Floor:
Page S445
Quorum Calls: Three quorum calls were taken today. (Total--4)
Pages S393, S405-06 Record Votes: Sixteen record votes were taken today. (Total--28)
Pages S392-98, S405-07
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 22, 2015 and adjourned, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the late former Senator Wendell H. Ford, in accordance with S. Res. 38, at 12:21 a.m. on Friday, January 23, 2015, until 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 26, 2015. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S445.)
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