I ask to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 816. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Coburn], for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, and Mr. McCain, proposes an amendment numbered 816.
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