[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 135 (Thursday, July 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4647]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        COORDINATED OCEAN OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH ACT OF 2019

  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 318, S. 914.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 914) to reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and 
     Ocean Observation System Act of 2009, to clarify the 
     authority of the Administrator of the National Oceanic and 
     Atmospheric Administration with respect to post-storm 
     assessments, and to require the establishment of a National 
     Water Center, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to proceeding to the 
measure?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation.
  Mr. SULLIVAN. I ask unanimous consent that the Wicker substitute 
amendment at the desk be agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be 
considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 2501), in the nature of a substitute, was agreed 
to as follows:
  (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute.)
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The bill (S. 914), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed.

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