[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 27]
[Senate]
[Page 36427]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      COMMISSION ON THE ABOLITION OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Judiciary 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 3432 and the 
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 3432) to establish the Commission on the 
     Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent a Lautenberg amendment at the desk 
be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time, passed, the 
motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or 
debate, and any statements be printed in the Record.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  The amendment (No. 3892) was agreed to, as follows:

        (Purpose: To strike the authorization of appropriations)

       On page 15, strike lines 3 through 5.

  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill (H.R. 3432), as amended, was read the third time and passed.

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