[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23173-23174]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          MEASURES DISCHARGED

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Governmental Affairs Committee be discharged from further consideration 
of S. 2693, S. 2839, H.R. 5039, H.R. 4381, H.R. 4556, H.R. 4618, and 
H.R. 4632 en bloc, and that the Senate proceed to their immediate 
consideration, along with H.R. 4046, H.R. 5027, H.R. 5133, H.R. 5147, 
and H.R. 5051, which are at the desk, en bloc.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, parliamentary inquiry.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. When does the name of the committee change officially? The 
name of the committee now is Governmental Affairs. We changed the name 
yesterday, did we not? Will it change in the new Congress? I wanted to 
know.
  Thank you.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is the understanding of the Chair the 
change occurs in the next Congress.
  Mr. REID. Thank you very much.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the pending request?
  Mr. REID. No objection.
  Mr. TALENT. Mr. President, I am certainly not going to object, but 
will the majority leader yield for a minute?
  Mr. FRIST. I would be happy to.
  Mr. TALENT. I had intended to make a few remarks as in morning 
business when I thought we would be staying in session for several more 
days. I figured I had a lot of time to do it. I am certainly glad that 
the leaders have been able to work out an arrangement to the contrary. 
But I wonder if your wrap-up request could include allowing me to speak 
as in morning business, if the Senator from Nevada does not mind, for 
maybe 20 minutes. It will not take any longer than that.
  Mr. REID. You could do it tomorrow, too.
  Mr. TALENT. I do not think there will be much time before the vote 
tomorrow.
  Mr. REID. That is right.
  Mr. TALENT. Afterwards we are all going to be trying to catch planes, 
so I ask if I could have a few minutes.
  Mr. FRIST. We will make that part of our unanimous consent request. 
And you might consider making it 10 minutes instead of 20 minutes, but 
you will have up to 20 minutes.
  Mr. TALENT. I appreciate it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to proceeding to the 
measures?

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  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bills 
en bloc.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bills be 
read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be laid upon 
the table en bloc, and that any statements relating to the bills be 
printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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