Daily Digest — Senate, Thursday, March 4, 2021
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This Senate Daily Digest for Thursday, March 4, 2021 reports that the Senate passed S. 590, the CONFUCIUS Act, to establish limitations regarding Confucius Institutes. It began consideration of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, and by 51 yeas to 50 nays, with the Vice President voting yea (Vote No. 73), agreed to the motion to proceed. A unanimous-consent time agreement provides for further consideration at approximately 9 a.m. on Friday, March 5, 2021 and for Senator Sanders to offer the first amendment. The Senate also began consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 11, on Secretary of Defense appointments. Committee entries cover hearings on the nomination of Colin Hackett Kahl and on the financial system and workers.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Daily Digest
Senate
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Chamber Action Pages S1121–24
Routine Proceedings, pages S1037–S1216 Additional Statements: Pages S1117–18
Measures Introduced: Twenty-six bills and two Amendments Submitted: Pages S1124–S1216
resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 586–611,
and S. Res. 95–96. Pages S1119–21 Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S1216
Measures Passed: Record Votes: One record vote was taken today.
(Total—73) Page S1051
CONFUCIUS Act: Senate passed S. 590, to estab-
lish limitations regarding Confucius Institutes. Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon on
Page S1043
Thursday, March 4, 2021 and adjourned at 2:05
a.m. on Friday, March 5, 2021, until 9 a.m. on the
Measures Considered: same day. (For Senate’s program, see the remarks of
Secretary of Defense Appointment Limitation the Acting Majority Leader in today’s Record on
Exception: Senate began consideration of the motion page S1216.)
to proceed to consideration of S. 11, to provide for
an exception to a limitation against appointment of
persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of
Committee Meetings
relief from active duty as a regular commissioned of- (Committees not listed did not meet)
ficer of the Armed Forces. Page S1037
NOMINATION
American Rescue Plan Act—Agreement: Senate
began consideration of H.R. 1319, to provide for Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a
reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 5, hearing to examine the nomination of Colin Hackett
taking action on the following amendment proposed Kahl, of California, to be Under Secretary of Defense
thereto: Pages S1051–S1117 for Policy, after the nominee testified and answered
Pending: questions in his own behalf.
Schumer Amendment No. 891, of a perfecting na- THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM, WORKERS, AND
ture. Pages S1051–S1117 THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP
Prior to the consideration of this measure, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:
took the following action: Committee concluded a hearing to examine how the
By 51 yeas to 50 nays, Vice President voting yea financial system hurts workers and widens the racial
(Vote No. 73), Senate agreed to the motion to pro- wealth gap, after receiving testimony from Abbye
ceed to consideration of the bill. Page S1051 Atkinson, University of California, Berkeley, School
A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached of Law; Darrick Hamilton, The New School and the
providing for further consideration of the bill at ap- Institute on Race and Political Economy, New York,
proximately 9 a.m., on Friday, March 5, 2021; that New York; and Glenn Cartman Loury, Brown Uni-
there be 3 hours of debate remaining, with the time versity, Providence, Rhode Island.
equally divided and controlled between the two
managers or their designees; and that it be in order BUSINESS MEETING
for Senator Sanders to offer the first amendment. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee
Page S1216 ordered favorably reported the nomination of Debra
Executive Communications: Pages S1118–19 Anne Haaland, of New Mexico, to be Secretary of
the Interior.
SSpencer on DSK126QN23PROD with DIGEST
Executive Reports of Committees: Page S1119
Also, Committee announced the following sub-
Additional Cosponsors: Page S1121 committee assignments for the 117th Congress:
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