[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5367]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EXTENSION ACT OF 2012, PART II

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the bill by 
title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 4348) to provide an extension of Federal-aid 
     highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
     other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
     enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs, and 
     for other purposes.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, all after 
the enacting clause is stricken and the text of S. 1813, as passed by 
the Senate, is inserted in lieu thereof.
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read the third time.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the bill 
(H.R. 4348), as amended, is passed and the motion to reconsider is 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  Under the previous order, the Senate insists on its amendment, 
requests a conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the 
two Houses, and the Chair appoints the following conferees on the part 
of the Senate.
  The Acting President pro tempore appointed Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Baucus, 
Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Schumer, 
Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Hatch, 
Mr. Shelby, Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. Hoeven conferees on the part of the 
Senate.

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