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On the recordDecember 15, 2011
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 1612 and the Senate proceed to its consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1612) to provide the Department of Justice with additional tools to target extraterritorial drug trafficking activities. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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