[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 176 (Wednesday, November 19, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S10678]
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            CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 COMMEMORATIVE COIN ACT

  Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Banking 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2040, and 
that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 2040) to require the Secretary of the Treasury 
     to mint coins in commemoration of the semicentennial of the 
     enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements 
relating to the bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (H.R. 2040) was ordered to a third reading, was read the 
third time, and passed.

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