Daily Digest, Senate Chamber Action, D549 (June 30, 2020)
Summary
The Daily Digest for Tuesday, June 30, 2020, Senate Chamber Action, covering Routine Proceedings on pages S3979 to S4081. It states that eighteen bills and two resolutions were introduced and that the Senate passed several measures, including S. 4104, the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, and a measure to extend the authority for commitments for the paycheck protection program. Committee hearings on road safety and on COVID-19 are also summarized. The Senate continued consideration of S. 4049, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021, with Inhofe Amendment No. 2301 pending.
Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used
Cite this document
“Daily Digest, Senate Chamber Action, D549 (June 30, 2020).”
Original at www.govinfo.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/crec-crec-2020-06-30-crec-2020-06-30-pt1-pgd549-1a25340b03/
, SHA-256 691bd269f200e07589204b983d2d3aec35f14fb6ad07b43c8c887216bfab0435.Full text
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Daily Digest
Senate
corrections, and the bill was then passed, after agree-
Chamber Action ing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
Routine Proceedings, pages S3979–S4081 Page S4080
Measures Introduced: Eighteen bills and two reso- Perdue (for Merkley) Amendment No. 2388, in
lutions were introduced, as follows: S. 4101–4118, the nature of a substitute. Page S4080
and S. Res. 638–639. Pages S4032–33 Sergeant Daniel Somers Veterans Network of
Measures Reported: Support Act: Senate passed S. 2864, to require the
S. 2381, to require review by the Government Ac- Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot pro-
countability Office of screening protocols of the gram on information sharing between the Depart-
Transportation Security Administration relating to ment of Veterans Affairs and designated relatives and
breast milk and formula, with an amendment in the friends of veterans regarding the assistance and bene-
nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 116–238) fits available to the veterans, after agreeing to the
Page S4032
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S4080–81
Measures Passed:
Measures Considered:
Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People
Act: Senate passed S. 4104, to amend the Improper National Defense Authorization Act—Agree-
Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement ment: Senate continued consideration of S. 4049, to
Act of 2012, including making changes to the Do authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for mili-
Not Pay Initiative, for improved detection, preven- tary activities of the Department of Defense, for
tion, and recovery of improper payments to deceased military construction, and for defense activities of
individuals. Pages S3999–S4002
the Department of Energy, to prescribe military per-
sonnel strengths for such fiscal year, taking action on
Paycheck protection program: Senate passed S. the following amendments proposed thereto:
4116, to extend the authority for commitments for Pages S3980–93, S3993–98, S4002–11, S4011–23
the paycheck protection program and separate Pending:
amounts authorized for other loans under section 7(a) Inhofe Amendment No. 2301, in the nature of a
of the Small Business Act. Page S4023 substitute. Page S3980
Ensuring Quality Care for Our Veterans Act: McConnell (for Portman) Amendment No. 2080
Senate passed S. 123, to require the Secretary of Vet- (to Amendment No. 2301), to require an element in
erans Affairs to enter into a contract or other agree- annual reports on cyber science and technology ac-
ment with a third party to review appointees in the tivities on work with academic consortia on high
Veterans Health Administration who had a license priority cybersecurity research activities in Depart-
terminated for cause by a State licensing board for ment of Defense capabilities. Page S3980
care or services rendered at a non-Veterans Health A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro-
Administration facility and to provide individuals viding for further consideration of the bill at ap-
treated by such an appointee with notice if it is de- proximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
termined that an episode of care or services to which Page S4081
they received was below the standard of care. Vought Nomination—Cloture: Senate began con-
Pages S4079–80 sideration of the nomination of Russell Vought, of
Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Act Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management
Corrections: Committee on Energy and Natural Re- and Budget. Page S4011
sources was discharged from further consideration of A motion was entered to close further debate on
S. 3758, to amend the Klamath Basin Water Supply the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi-
dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with DIGEST
Enhancement Act of 2000 to make certain technical sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the
D549
VerDate Sep 11 2014 13:42 Jul 01, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D30JN0.REC D30JNPT1
D550 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST June 30, 2020
Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, tion; and Jane Terry, National Safety Council, Wash-
July 2, 2020. Page S4011 ington, D.C.
Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Sen- IMPACTS OF COVID–19 IN THE
ate took the following action: TERRITORIES
Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Execu-
tive Session to consider the nomination. Page S4011 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee
concluded a hearing to examine the impacts of the
Nomination Received: Senate received the fol- COVID–19 pandemic in the territories, after receiv-
lowing nomination: ing testimony from Representatives Sablan,
William Perry Pendley, of Wyoming, to be Direc- Radewagen, Plaskett, González-Colón, and San Nico-
tor of the Bureau of Land Management. Page S4081 las.
Messages from the House: Page S4031
IRS COVID–19 RECOVERY
Measures Placed on the Calendar: Page S3980
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing
Executive Communications: Pages S4031–32 to examine 2020 filing season and Internal Revenue
Additional Cosponsors: Pages S4033–38 Service COVID–19 recovery, after receiving testi-
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: mony from Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner, Inter-
Pages S4038–42
nal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
Additional Statements: Pages S4030–31 CENSORSHIP AND TRADE
Amendments Submitted: Pages S4042–79 Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness con-
Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S4079
cluded a hearing to examine censorship as a non-tar-
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and ad- iff barrier to trade, after receiving testimony from
journed at 9:04 p.m., until 9:30 a.m. on Wednes- Richard Gere, International Campaign for Tibet,
day, July 1, 2020. (For Senate’s program, see the re- Nigel Cory, Information Technology and Innovation
marks of the Acting Majority Leader in today’s Foundation, Clete R. Williams, Akin Gump Strauss
Record on page S4081.) Hauer and Feld, and Beth Baltzan, Open Markets
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
Committee Meetings COVID–19
(Committees not listed did not meet) Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded
a hearing to examine COVID–19 and United States
DIGITIZATION OF MONEY AND international pandemic preparedness, prevention, and
PAYMENTS response, focusing on additional perspectives, after
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: receiving testimony from Mark Dybul, Georgetown
Committee concluded a hearing to examine the University Medical Center, Jimmy Kolker, former
digitization of money and payments, including S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant
2563, to improve laws relating to money laundering, Secretary for Global Affairs, and Jeremy Konyndyk,
and S. 3571, to require member banks to maintain Center for Global Development, all of Washington,
pass-through digital dollar wallets for certain per- D.C.; and Ashish K. Jha, Harvard Global Health In-
sons, after receiving testimony from J. Christopher stitute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Giancarlo, Willkie Farr and Gallagher, and Charles
Cascarilla, Paxos, both of New York, New York, and NOMINATION
Nakita Q. Cuttino, Duke University School of Law, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
Durham, North Carolina. fairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the
nomination of Derek Kan, of California, to be Dep-
TRAFFIC SAFETY uty Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Sub- et, after the nominee testified and answered ques-
committee on Transportation and Safety concluded a tions in his own behalf.
hearing to examine safety on our roads, focusing on
an overview of traffic safety and National Highway COVID–19: UPDATE ON GETTING BACK TO
Traffic Safety Administration grant programs, after WORK AND SCHOOL
receiving testimony from Chris Peterson, Lincoln Po- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with DIGEST
lice Department, Lincoln, Nebraska; John Saunders, Committee concluded a hearing to examine
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Arlington, COVID–19, focusing on an update on progress to-
on behalf of the Governors Highway Safety Associa- ward safely getting back to work and back to school,
VerDate Sep 11 2014 13:42 Jul 01, 2020 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D30JN0.REC D30JNPT1
File and source
- File
- CREC_crec-2020-06-30_crec-2020-06-30-pt1-pgd549.pdf
- Size
- 276,949 bytes
- SHA-256
- 691bd269f200e07589204b983d2d3aec35f14fb6ad07b43c8c887216bfab0435
- Original
- www.govinfo.gov