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On the recordJune 1, 2011
I offer an amendment. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 3, line 19, after the period insert ``In addition, for necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for Management to plan, acquire, construct, renovate, remediate, equip, furnish, and occupy buildings and facilities for the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security headquarters, $500,673,000.''. Ms. NORTON (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to waive the reading of the amendment. The CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia? There was no objection.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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