[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11458]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             AUTHORIZING TESTIMONY AND LEGAL REPRESENTATION

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the 
consideration of S. Res. 195.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 195) authorizing testimony and 
     representation in the matter of the proposed discipline of 
     Laura Block Lower.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, this resolution concerns testimony and 
representation in a professional license disciplinary proceeding 
pending before the Montana Board of Social Work Examiners and 
Professional Counselors. In this proceeding, the licensee, Laura Block 
Lower, is challenging a screening panel's findings that she was in 
violation of her professional obligations, which may have contributed 
to her then-former client's eventual suicide.
  The licensee is seeking testimony from a staffer in Senator Tester's 
office about constituent casework that office provided to her former 
client in the weeks leading up to his suicide. Senator Tester has no 
objection to providing any relevant evidence from his staff in this 
proceeding. This resolution would accordingly authorize Senator 
Tester's employee to provide evidence in this proceeding, with 
representation by the Senate Legal Counsel.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, 
the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be laid on the 
table, with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 195) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in today's Record 
under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')

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