[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10457-10458]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016

  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, before I make a unanimous consent request, 
I wish to say, for the information of my colleagues, that, as happens 
on occasion, the legislation of the National Defense Authorization Act 
was in violation of the Ways and Means jurisdiction in the House, which 
then led to an automatic blue slip, which means that basically, for all 
intents and purposes, the entire bill comes to a standstill.
  In order to repair that, it requires unanimous consent in the Senate 
in order to strike the provision and send it back to the House, without 
the provision which they found objectionable--their Parliamentarian 
did--and which required the so-called blue slip.
  So I appreciate very much the agreement of the Democratic leader, who 
agreed to this unanimous consent request, so that we can move forward 
with a conference on the bill and hopefully, if now things go right, we 
could get it to the President's desk in July.
  I thank the Democratic leader, who has agreed to this unanimous 
consent request, in order that we might move forward. So I express my 
appreciation to him for allowing this.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate receives 
the papers on H.R. 1735, the Secretary of the Senate re-engross the 
Senate amendment to the bill, H.R. 1735, with the following: Strike 
section 636.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The bill, H.R. 1735, which was previously ordered to be printed as 
passed by the Senate, and was printed in the Record of Monday, June 22, 
2015, was modified by unanimous consent to strike section 636.)
  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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