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Senate audio overview · September 30, 2026

September 30, 2026: Senate Votes Overview

One day’s coverage: selected Senate actions on September 30, 2026, including two attempts to take up bills and three bills the Senate passed.

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What happened?

  1. Two attempts to take up bills

    On September 30, cloture on the motion to proceed was rejected for H.R. 7008, 53–47, and H.R. 9340, 57–43. Both votes had a stated three-fifths requirement. These were procedural steps toward taking up the bills, not final-passage defeats.

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    • Recorded Senate action

      Senate roll-call vote ↗

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    • Recorded Senate action

      Senate roll-call vote ↗

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What else happened in the Senate?

  1. Taxpayer assistance and health-care cybersecurity

    The Senate passed H.R. 5349 with an amendment and a title amendment by unanimous consent. It also passed S. 3315 with an amendment by unanimous consent. For S. 3315, the committee substitute was withdrawn and a separate amendment was agreed to.

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    • Recorded Senate action

      Congressional Record Daily Digest ↗

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      Retained official action record (API access restricted)

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      Retrieved: 2026-10-03T22:46:35.294Z

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      Retained official action record (API access restricted)

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    • Recorded Senate action

      Congressional Record Daily Digest ↗

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      Retained official action record (API access restricted)

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  2. Manual-wheelchair payment rules

    The Senate passed H.R. 1703 without amendment by voice vote. The Daily Digest describes its purpose as clarifying Medicare Part B payment rules for manual wheelchairs. Senate passage alone does not establish enactment.

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    • Recorded Senate action

      Congressional Record Daily Digest ↗

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Coverage limits. House vote-index coverage was unavailable. This is not complete coverage of either chamber, committee activity or the week. Missing coverage does not mean inactivity. S. Res. 916 remains excluded. These records do not establish enactment or a current upcoming schedule.

What period does this cover?

Selected Senate actions on September 30, 2026. The underlying packet contains 46 retained Senate ledger findings and 38 scoped measure input sets; this page highlights five actions.

Source cutoff. Floor capture completed October 3, 2026 at 17:50:36.137231 UTC. Later bill snapshots have their own retrieval times; this is not an issue-wide cutoff.

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