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                                            Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3089-S3199
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1390-1408, and S. Con. Res. 17.
  Pages S3183-84
Measures Passed:
  Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 47, to correct 
the enrollment of S. 178.
  Page S3198
Measures Considered:
Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the Right To Appeal Act--Agreement: 
Senate continued consideration of H.R. 1314, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal 
relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain 
organizations, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S3092-S3175
Pending:
  Hatch Amendment No. 1221, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S3092
  Hatch (for Flake) Amendment No. 1243 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
strike the extension of the trade adjustment assistance program. 
                                                             Page S3092
  Hatch (for Inhofe/Coons) Modified Amendment No. 1312 (to Amendment 
No. 1221), to amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to require 
the development of a plan for each sub-Saharan African country for 
negotiating and entering into free trade agreements.
Page S3092
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 1226 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
repeal a duplicative inspection and grading program.
Page S3092
  Stabenow (for Portman) Amendment No. 1299 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
make it a principal negotiating objective of the United States to 
address currency manipulation in trade agreements. 
                                        Pages S3092, S3107-09, S3112-13
  Brown Amendment No. 1251 (to Amendment No. 1221), to require the 
approval of Congress before additional countries may join the Trans-
Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Page S3092
  Wyden (for Shaheen) Amendment No. 1227 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
make trade agreements work for small businesses.
Page S3092
  Wyden (for Warren) Amendment No. 1327 (to Amendment No. 1221), to 
prohibit the application of the trade authorities procedures to an 
implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement that 
includes investor-state dispute settlement.
Page S3092
  Hatch Modified Amendment No. 1411 (to the language proposed to be 
stricken by Amendment No. 1299), of a perfecting nature.
Page S3092
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9 a.m., on Thursday, May 21, 
2015.
Page S3199
Messages from the House:
  Pages S3182-83
Measures Referred:
  Page S3183
Measures Read the First Time:
  Pages S3183, S3198-99
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S3183
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3184-85
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3185-89
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3178-82
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3190-98
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S3198
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 11:57 p.m., 
until 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2015. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3199.)