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On the recordMarch 11, 2014
I ask unanimous consent the Rules Committee be discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 32 and the Senate proceed to its consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the joint resolution by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 32) providing for the reappointment of John W. McCarter as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the joint resolution.
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Dick Durbin
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