[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 4145-4146]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 REAPPOINTMENT OF JOHN W. McCARTER AS A CITIZEN REGENT OF THE BOARD OF 
                 REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

  Mr. DURBIN. I ask unanimous consent the Rules Committee be discharged 
from further consideration of S.J. Res. 32 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. 32) providing for the 
     reappointment of John W. McCarter

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     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. DURBIN. I ask unanimous consent the joint resolution be read a 
third time and passed; and the motion to reconsider be considered made 
and 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. 32) was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 32

       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 John W. McCarter of Illinois on March 14, 2014, is filled 
     by the reappointment of the incumbent. The reappointment is 
     for a term of 6 years, beginning on March 15, 2014, or the 
     date of enactment of this joint resolution, whichever occurs 
     later.

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