[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H2092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR THE REAPPOINTMENT OF DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN AS A CITIZEN 
     REGENT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

  Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that the Committee on House Administration be discharged from further 
consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 10) providing for the 
reappointment of David M. Rubenstein as a citizen regent of the Board 
of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ratcliffe). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from Illinois?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the joint resolution is as follows:

                              H.J. Res. 10

       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 by reason of the expiration of the term 
     of David M. Rubenstein of Maryland on May 7, 2015, is filled 
     by the reappointment of the incumbent. The reappointment is 
     for a term of 6 years, beginning on May 8, 2015, or the date 
     of the enactment of this joint resolution, whichever occurs 
     later.

  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider 
was laid on the table.

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