[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 115 (Monday, August 2, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S6594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        STAR-SPANGLED BANNER BICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIVE COIN ACT

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Banking 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2097 and 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. 2097) to require the Secretary of the Treasury 
     to mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the 
     writing of the Star-Spangled Banner, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. DODD. 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 be 
printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (H.R. 2097) was ordered to a third reading, was read the 
third time, and passed.

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