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Wrap Up for Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Roll Call Votes
  1. Lee amendment #3023 (national monuments); not agreed to: 47-48.
  2. Franken amendment #3115 (energy efficiency); not agreed to: 43-52.
  3. Barrasso #3030 (natural gas gathering lines); not agreed to: 52-43.
  4. Sullivan #2996 (repeals rules); not agreed to: 49-46.
  5. Schatz #3176 (phase out tax preference-fossil fuels); not agreed to: 45-50.
  6. Whitehouse #3125 (campaign financial disclosure); not agreed to: 43-52.

Legislative Business

The following amendments were agreed to by voice vote:

  1. Rounds #3182, as modified (conservation)
  2. Durbin #3095 (increase funding for DOE Office of Science)
  3. Hirono #3064 (energy workforce pilot grant)
  4. Hirono #3065, as modified (energy workforce pilot grant)
  5. Klobuchar #3179 (grid storage program)
  6. Carper-Inhofe #3145 (Federal purchase requirement, renewable)
  7. Heitkamp #3174 (SoS carbon capture)
  8. Collins-Klobuchar #3140, as modified (forest biomass energy)
  9. Baldwin #3156 (manufacturing energy efficiency)
  10. Carper-Inhofe #3143 (diesel emissions reduction program)
  11. Boxer-Feinstein #3194, as modified (Aliso Canyon)
  12. Inhofe-King #3205 (geometric data)
  13. Booker #3160 (methane hydrate resources)

Passed S.2306, West Lake Landfill.

Adopted the following resolutions, en bloc:

  1. Res.353, raising awareness and encouraging the prevention of stalking by designating January 2016, as "National Stalking Awareness Day".
  2. Res.354, congratulating the University of Nebraska-Lincoln volleyball team for winning the 2015 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Volleyball Championship.
  3. Res.355, designating the week beginning February 7, 2016, as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week".
  4. Res.356, recognizing January 2016, as "National Mentoring Month".

Began the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business H.R.4168, Small Business Capital Formation Enhancement Act.

No Executive Business