Wrap Up for Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Roll Call Votes

1.       Confirmation of Executive Calendar #362, Peter Joseph Phipps, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit; confirmed: 56-40.

2.       Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #1, Treaty Doc. No. 113-4, The Protocol Amending the Tax Convention with Spain; invoked: 94-1.

3.       Paul amendment #924 (re: tax privacy); not agreed to: 4-92.

4.       Paul amendment #921 (re: reservation); not agreed to: 4-92.

5.       On the resolution of ratification of Treaty Doc. No. 113-4, The Protocol Amending the Tax Convention with Spain; agreed to: 94-2.

Legislative Business

Adopted Calendar #139, S.Res.198 with amendments: condemning Brunei’s dramatic human rights backsliding.

Passed Calendar #76, S.375: Payment Integrity Information Act.

Passed by voice vote Calendar #103, S.Res.74 with amendments: marking the fifth anniversary of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity.

Began the Rule 14 process to place H.R.1327, 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Act, on the Legislative Calendar of Business.

No additional Executive Business