[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 218 (Monday, December 21, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 RESTORING RESILIENT REEFS ACT OF 2019

  Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 2429 and the Senate proceed to its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Ernst). The clerk will report the bill by 
title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2429) to reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation 
     Act of 2000 and to establish the United States Coral Reef 
     Task Force, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. CORNYN. I ask unanimous consent that the Rubio amendment at the 
desk be agreed to, and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a 
third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 2730), in the nature of a substitute, was agreed 
to.
  (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute.)
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  Mr. CORNYN. I know of no further debate on the bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question 
is, Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (S. 2429), as amended, was passed.
  Mr. CORNYN. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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