[Daily Digest]
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                                               Monday, June 9, 2025

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3275-S3292
Measures Introduced: Fourteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1986-1999, and S.J. Res. 57.
  Page S3284
Measures Reported:
  S. 245, to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Communications and Information to establish a working group on cyber 
insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for 
issuers and customers of cyber insurance. (S. Rept. No. 119-28) 
                                                             Page S3284
Measures Considered:
Genius Act--Cloture: Senate resumed consideration of S. 1582, to 
provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, taking action on the 
following motions and amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S3275-77
Withdrawn:
  Thune (for Ricketts/Lummis) Amendment No. 2228, to provide for 
expedited certification of existing regulatory regimes.
Page S3276
Pending:
  Thune (for Hagerty/Gillibrand) Amendment No. 2307, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3276
  Thune Amendment No. 2308 (to Amendment No. 2307), to change the 
enactment date.
Page S3276
  Thune Amendment No. 2309 (to Amendment No. 2308), to change the 
enactment date.
Page S3276
  Thune Amendment No. 2310 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 2307), to change the enactment date.
Page S3276
  Thune Amendment No. 2311 (to Amendment No. 2310), to change the 
enactment date.
Page S3276
  Thune motion to commit the bill to the Committee on the Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs, with instructions, Thune Amendment No. 
2312, to change the enactment date.
Page S3276
  Thune Amendment No. 2313 (to (the instructions) Amendment No. 2312), 
to change the enactment date.
Page S3276
  Thune Amendment No. 2314 (to Amendment No. 2313), to change the 
enactment date.
Page S3276
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Thune (for Hagerty/
Gillibrand) Amendment No. 2307 (listed above), 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 the nomination of William 
Long, of Missouri, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the 
remainder of the term expiring November 12, 2027.
Page S3276
  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 Thune (for 
Hagerty/Gillibrand) Amendment No. 2307.
Page S3276
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Bennet Amendment No. 2278 (to Amendment No. 2228), to provide a 
definition, fell when Thune (for Ricketts/Lummis) Amendment No. 2228 
(listed above) was withdrawn.
Pages S3275-76
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the filing 
deadline for all first-degree amendments to the bill and to Thune (for 
Hagerty/Gillibrand) Amendment No. 2307, be at 2:30 p.m., on Tuesday, 
June 10, 2025.
Page S3292
Long Nomination--Cloture: Senate began consideration of the nomination 
of William Long, of Missouri, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
for the remainder of the term expiring November 12, 2027.
  Page S3275
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination, 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 the 
nomination of Andrew Hughes, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
Page S3275
  Prior to the consideration of this nomination, Senate took the 
following action:
  Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to Executive Session to 
consider the nomination.
Page S3275
Fotouhi Nomination--Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of the 
nomination of David Fotouhi, of

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Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency.
  Page S3283
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 53 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. EX. 298), Senate agreed to the motion 
to close further debate on the nomination.
Pages S3282-83
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the nomination, post-cloture, at approximately 10 
a.m., on Tuesday, June 10, 2025; that notwithstanding rule XXII, at 
11:15 a.m., Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination; that if 
cloture is invoked on the nomination of Stephen Vaden, of Tennessee, to 
be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, the post-cloture time be expired at 
2:15 p.m., and Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination. 
                                                             Page S3292
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 51 yeas 41 nays (Vote No. EX. 297), Brett Shumate, of Virginia, to 
be an Assistant Attorney General.
Pages S3277-82, S3292
Messages from the House:
  Page S3283
Measures Referred:
  Page S3283
Executive Communications:
  Pages S3283-84
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3284-85
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3285-92
Notices of Intent:
  Page S3292
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S3292
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--298) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 6:42 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3292.)