[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20796]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IMPROVING GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

  Mr. SALAZAR. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee be discharged from further 
consideration of H.R. 928, and the Senate proceed to its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 928) to amend the Inspector General Act of 
     1978 to enhance the independence of the Inspectors General, 
     to create a Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity 
     and Efficiency, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SALAZAR. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that a 
McCaskill substitute amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the 
bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, the motions to 
reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or 
debate, and that any statements relating thereto be printed in the 
Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 5644) was agreed to.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill (H.R. 928), as amended, was read the third time and passed.

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