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On the recordDecember 1, 2010
I ask unanimous consent that the Durbin amendment be agreed to; the committee-reported substitute, as amended, be agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed with no intervening action or debate; and that any statements be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 4725) was agreed to. (The text of the amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of Amendments.'') The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, was agreed to. The bill (S. 987), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed. ____________________
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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