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On the recordJanuary 23, 2012
I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported amendment be agreed to and be considered original text for the purposes of further amendment; that the Klobuchar-Johnson of Wisconsin-Franken amendment, which is at the desk, be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, and any statements related to the bill be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The committee-reported amendment was agreed to. The amendment (No. 1468) was agreed to, as follows: (Purpose: To modify the offset) Strike section 3 and insert the following: SEC. 3. OFFSET. (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made available for items 676, 813, 3186, 4358, and 5132 in the table contained in section 1702 of the SAFETEA-LU (119 Stat. 1288, 1380, 1423) shall be subject to the limitation on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs distributed under section 102(a)6) of title I of division C of Public Law 112-55 (23 U.S.C. 104 note; 125 Stat. 652). (b) Rescission.--Any obligation authority made available until used to a State as a result of receipt of contract authority for the items described in subsection (a) that remains available to the State as of the date of enactment of this Act is permanently rescinded. The bill (S.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 23, 2012

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