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On the recordJuly 25, 2005
I ask that amendment be set aside and we call up amendment No. 1571. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Illinois [Mr. Durbin], for himself, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Allen, Mr. Graham, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Chafee, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Biden, Mr. Kennedy, and Mrs. Murray, proposes an amendment numbered 1571.
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Dick Durbin
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