[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 31, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S10525]
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            PROVIDING FOR THE REAPPOINTMENT OF ROGER W. SANT

  Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Rules 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 7 and 
that the Senate then proceed to its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the joint resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 7) providing for the 
     reappointment of Roger W. Sant as a citizen regent of the 
     Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint 
resolution.
  Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the joint 
resolution be read three times, passed, and the motion to reconsider be 
laid upon the table; that any statements relating to the joint 
resolution be printed in the Record.
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 7) was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 7

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in 
     accordance with section 5581 of the Revised Statutes (20 
     U.S.C. 43), the vacancy on the Board of Regents of the 
     Smithsonian Institution, in the class other than Members of 
     Congress, occurring because of the expiration of the term of 
     Roger W. Sant of Washington, D.C., as filled by the 
     reappointment of Roger W. Sant, for a term of 6 years, 
     effective October 25, 2007.

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