Congressional Record — January 17, 2025

Overview of the day

On January 17, 2025, the Senate continued consideration of S. 5 and agreed to a motion to close further debate on the bill. The Senate also introduced five new bills and received a message from the House regarding the passage of H.R. 30. Various Senate committees are scheduled to meet the following week to examine nominations for Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of the Army, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of State, Representative to the United Nations, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs. House committees are scheduled for organizational meetings and hearings the following week, including discussions on H.R. 231, H.R. 261, H.R. 331, and H.R. 471.

Summary of the House proceedings

There was no House activity on this date.

Summary of Senate proceedings

S. 5 is a bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
S. 5 had 2 amendments proposed to it.
A vote was held and the Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on S. 5.
S. 147 was introduced to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide grants to air pollution control agencies to implement a cleaner air space program.
S. 148 was introduced to prohibit the use of non-monetized or unqualified factors for regulatory analyses.
S. 149 was introduced to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft.
S. 150 was introduced to require the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State to implement a strategy to combat the efforts of transnational criminal organizations to recruit individuals in the United States via social media platforms and other online services.
S. 151 was introduced to exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
H.R. 30 was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary after being passed by the House to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable.
S. 122 was mentioned as Senator Cassidy was added as a cosponsor of the bill to amend the Revised Statutes to codify the defense of qualified immunity.
S. 145 was mentioned as Senator Fischer was added as a cosponsor of the bill to require the redesignation of Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization.