[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 172 (Thursday, December 1, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S6680]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING INNOVATION ACT OF 2015

  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be discharged from 
further consideration of H.R. 1561 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 legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 1561) to improve the National Oceanic and 
     Atmospheric Administration's weather research through a 
     focused program of investment on affordable and attainable 
     advances in observational, computing, and modeling 
     capabilities to support substantial improvement in weather 
     forecasting and prediction of high impact weather events, to 
     expand commercial opportunities for the provision of weather 
     data, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Thune 
substitute amendment at the desk be considered, the Cantwell amendment 
at the desk be considered and agreed to, the Thune substitute 
amendment, as amended, be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be 
considered read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider 
be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 5126) was agreed to.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The amendment (No. 5125) in the nature of a substitute, as amended, 
was agreed to.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read the third time.
  The bill (H.R. 1561), as amended, was passed.

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