[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR REAPPOINTMENT OF WESLEY S. WILLIAMS, JR. AS A CITIZEN 
         REGENT OF BOARD OF REGENTS OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on House Administration be discharged from further consideration of the 
joint resolution (H.J. Res. 27) providing for the reappointment of 
Wesley S. Williams, Jr., 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. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the joint resolution, as follows:

                              H.J. Res. 28

       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 of the 
     United States (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 Wesley S. Williams, Jr. of the 
     District of Columbia on April 11, 1999, is filled by the 
     reappointment of the incumbent for a term of six years, 
     effective April 12, 1999.

  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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