[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   VETERANS DAY MOMENT OF SILENCE ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of 
S. 1004 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1004) to amend title 36, United States Code, to 
     encourage the nationwide observance of two minutes of silence 
     each Veterans Day.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill 
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 bill (S. 1004) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1004

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Day Moment of 
     Silence Act''.

     SEC. 2. OBSERVANCE OF VETERANS DAY.

       (a) Two Minutes of Silence.--Chapter 1 of title 36, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new section:

     ``Sec. 145. Veterans Day

       ``The President shall issue each year a proclamation 
     calling on the people of the United States to observe two 
     minutes of silence on Veterans Day in honor of the service 
     and sacrifice of veterans throughout the history of the 
     Nation, beginning at--
       ``(1) 3:11 p.m. Atlantic standard time;
       ``(2) 2:11 p.m. eastern standard time;
       ``(3) 1:11 p.m. central standard time;
       ``(4) 12:11 p.m. mountain standard time;
       ``(5) 11:11 a.m. Pacific standard time;
       ``(6) 10:11 a.m. Alaska standard time; and
       ``(7) 9:11 a.m. Hawaii-Aleutian standard time.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 
     1 of title 36, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new item:

``145. Veterans Day.''.

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