[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18410-18411]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    FEDERAL COURTS JURISDICTION AND VENUE CLARIFICATION ACT OF 2011

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate a 
message from the House with respect to H.R. 394.
  The Chair laid before the Senate the following message:

                                H.R. 394

       Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment numbered 1 
     of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 394) entitled ``An Act to 
     amend

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     title 28, United States Code, to clarify the jurisdiction of 
     the Federal courts, and for other purposes.'' and be it 
     further
       Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment numbered 2 
     of the Senate to the aforementioned bill, with the following 
     House Amendment to Senate Amendment:
       Add at the end of the Senate engrossed amendment numbered 2 
     the following:

       Redesignate section 104 as section 105 and insert the 
     following after section 103:

     SEC. 104. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

       Section 1446(g) of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
     by striking ``subsections (b) and (c)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (b) of this section and paragraph (1) of section 
     1455(b)''.

       Amend the table of contents of the House engrossed bill by 
     striking the item relating to section 104 and inserting the 
     following:

Sec. 104. Technical amendment.
Sec. 105. Effective date.

  Mr. DURBIN. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate concur in the 
House amendment to the Senate amendment and the motion to reconsider be 
laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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