[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16657]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR THE REAPPOINTMENT OF DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN AS A CITIZEN 
     REGENT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the Rules Committee be 
discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 45 and the Senate 
proceed to its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the joint resolution by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 45) providing for the 
     reappointment of David M. Rubenstein as a citizen regent of 
     the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the joint resolution be read a 
third time and passed 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.
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 45) was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 45

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in 
     accordance with section 5581 of the Revised Statutes (20 
     U.S.C. 43), the vacancy on the Board of Regents of the 
     Smithsonian Institution, in the class other than Members of 
     Congress, occurring by reason of the expiration of the term 
     of David M. Rubenstein of Maryland on May 7, 2015, is filled 
     by the reappointment of the incumbent. The reappointment is 
     for a term of 6 years, beginning on May 8, 2015.

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