[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10398-10399]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        TERRORIST BOMBINGS CONVENTION IMPLEMENTATION ACT OF 2001

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Judiciary 
Committee is discharged from further consideration of S. 1770, and the 
Senate will now proceed to its consideration.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1770) to implement the International Convention 
     for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings to strengthen 
     criminal laws relating to attacks on places of public use, to 
     implement the International Convention of the Suppression of 
     the Financing of Terrorism, to combat terrorism and defend 
     the Nation against terrorist acts, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senator from 
Vermont, Mr. Leahy, or his designee, is to be recognized to offer an 
amendment.

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                           Amendment No. 3848

                   (Purpose: To propose a substitute)

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I call up my amendment at the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Leahy], for himself and Mr. 
     Hatch, proposes an amendment numbered 3848.

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 3848) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill for the third 
time.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (S. 1770), as amended, was passed.
  Mr. LEAHY. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. KERRY. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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