[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 175 (Wednesday, December 11, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S8813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        NATIONAL ESTUARIES WEEK

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the Judiciary 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 263 and 
that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the resolution by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:
  A resolution (S. Res. 263) designating the week of September 23 
through September 29 as ``National Estuaries Week.''
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the 
Whitehouse amendment to the preamble, which is at the desk, be agreed 
to; the preamble, as amended, be agreed to, and the motions to 
reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or 
debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 263) was agreed to.
  The amendment (No. 2546) was agreed to, as follows:

       In the seventh whereas clause of the preamble, strike 
     ``extreme weather events'' and insert ``hurricanes and 
     storms''.
       In the ninth whereas clause of the preamble, insert 
     ``some'' before ``bays in the United States''.

  The preamble, as amended, was agreed to.
  (The resolution will be printed in a future edition of the Record.)

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