August 22, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 149 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Pages H4299-H4300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF FRANKLIN D. RAINES AS A CITIZEN REGENT 
         OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on House Administration be discharged from further consideration of the 
joint resolution (H.J. Res. 88) providing for the appointment of 
Franklin D. Raines as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution, and ask for its immediate consideration in the 
House.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Maryland?

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  There was no objection.
  The text of the joint resolution is as follows:

                              H.J. Res. 88

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in 
     accordance with section 5581 of the Revised Statutes of the 
     United States (20 U.S.C. 43), the vacancy on the Board of 
     Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, in the class other 
     than Members of Congress, occurring by reason of the 
     expiration of the term of John W. McCarter Jr. of Illinois on 
     March 21, 2020, is filled by the appointment of Franklin D. 
     Raines of Washington, DC. The appointment is for a term of 
     six years, beginning the date of the enactment of this joint 
     resolution.

  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider 
was laid on the table.

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