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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations be author-
ized to meet during the session of the
Senate on July 7, 2016, at 2:15 p.m., to
conduct a hearing entitled ''An Assess-
ment of U.S. Economic Assistance.''
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the Select
Committee on Intelligence be author-
ized to meet during the session of the
Senate on July 7, 2016, at 9:30 a.m., in
room SH219 of the Hart Senate Office
Building.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the Select
Committee on Intelligence be author-
ized to meet during the session of the
Senate on July 7, 2016, at 2 p.m., in
room SH219 of the Hart Senate Office
Building.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
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PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR
Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that a fellow who
has worked on this issue, Dave Keahey,
be granted floor privileges for the re-
mainder of the calendar year.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that Nick Howard
and Mark Owens, congressional fellows
in Senator HATCH's office, be granted
floor privileges for the remainder of
the 114th Congress.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
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APPOINTMENTS
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
Chair, on behalf of the Democratic
leader, pursuant to Public Law 114187,
and in consultation with the ranking
member of the Senate Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources and
with the ranking member of the Senate
Committee on Finance, appoints the
following individuals as members of
the Congressional Task Force on Eco-
nomic Growth in Puerto Rico: the Hon-
orable BILL NELSON of Florida (Energy
and Natural Resources) and the Honor-
able ROBERT MENENDEZ of New Jersey
(Finance).
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MEASURE READ THE FIRST
TIMEH.R. 1270
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
understand there is a bill at the desk,
and I ask for its first reading.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will read the bill by title for the
first time.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A bill (H.R. 1270) to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the amend-
ments made by the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act which disqualify ex-
penses for over-the-counter drugs under
health savings accounts and health flexible
spending arrangements.
Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for a second
reading and, in order to place the bill
on the calendar under the provisions of
rule XIV, I object to my own request.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec-
tion is heard.
The bill will be read for the second
time on the next legislative day.
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EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF CON-
GRESS THAT THE SO-CALLED IS-
LAMIC STATE IN IRAQ AND AL-
SHAM (ISIS OR DA'ESH) IS COM-
MITTING
GENOCIDE,
CRIMES
AGAINST HUMANITY, AND WAR
CRIMES
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Sen-
ate proceed to the consideration of Cal-
endar No. 447, S. Res. 340.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will report the resolution by
title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A resolution (S. Res. 340) expressing the
sense of Congress that the so-called Islamic
State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS or Da'esh) is
committing genocide, crimes against human-
ity, and war crimes, and calling upon the
President to work with foreign governments
and the United Nations to provide physical
protection for ISIS' targets, to support the
creation of an international criminal tri-
bunal with jurisdiction to punish these
crimes, and to use every reasonable means,
including sanctions, to destroy ISIS and dis-
rupt its support networks.
There being no objection, the Senate
proceeded to consider the resolution,
which had been reported from the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations, with an
amendment and an amendment to the
preamble and an amendment to the
title.
S. RES. 340
Whereas Christians and other religious and
ethnic minorities have been an integral part
of the cultural fabric of the Middle East for
millennia;
Whereas the Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL or Da'esh) and associated ex-
tremists are committing egregious atrocities
against ethnic and religious minorities in
Iraq and Syria, including Christians (among
them Assyrian Chaldean Syriac, Armenian,
Evangelicals, Antiochian and Greek Ortho-
dox, Maronite, Melkite, and Roman Catholic
communities), Yezidis, Turkmen, Shi'a,
Shabak, Sabaean-Mandeans, and Kaka'i,
among others;
Whereas ISIL specifically targets these re-
ligious and ethnic minorities, intending to
kill them or force their submission, conver-
sion, or expulsion;
Whereas religious and ethnic minorities
have been murdered, subjugated, forced to
emigrate, and subjected to grievous bodily
and psychological harm, kidnapping, human
trafficking, torture, and rape;
Whereas ISIL engages in, and publicly ar-
gues in favor of, the sexual enslavement of
non-Muslim women, including prepubescent
girls;
Whereas the United Nations Assistance
Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the United Na-
tions Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said in
a January 2016 report that it believes ISIL is
holding around 3,500 slaves, predominantly
women and children, ''primarily from the
Yezidi community, but a number are also
from other ethnic and religious minority
communities'';
Whereas ISIL specifically targets religious
and ethnic minorities, and has reportedly
kidnapped, forcibly displaced, killed, raped,
electrocuted, and crucified members of eth-
nic and religious groups, including Christian,
Shabak, Turkmen,
and Shia of
all
ethnicities;
Whereas ISIL has deliberately destroyed
and looted numerous cultural sites, religious
shrines, places of worship, monasteries, and
museums in order to eradicate the cultures
of ethnic and religious minorities;
Whereas these atrocities have been under-
taken with the specific intent to bring about
the eradication of those communities and
the destruction of their cultural heritage;
Whereas ISIL operations have in fact driv-
en minority religious and ethnic commu-
nities from their ancestral homelands;
Whereas under applicable domestic and
international law codified in section 2441 of
title 18, United States Code, murder, torture,
mutilation, rape, cruel treatment, and hos-
tage taking of non-combatants constitute
war crimes;
Whereas crimes against humanity, as de-
fined by the International Military Tribunal
convened at Nuremberg in 1945, include mur-
der, extermination, enslavement, deporta-
tion, and other inhumane acts committed
against any civilian population, as well as
persecution on political, racial, or religious
grounds in connection with such crimes;
Whereas the United Nations Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide, signed and ratified by the
United States, defines genocide as ''any of
the following acts committed with the intent
to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing
serious bodily or mental harm to members of
the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the
group conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in
part; (d) Imposing measures intended to pre-
vent births within the group; (e) Forcibly
transferring children of the group to another
group'';
Whereas according to the United Nations
Commission of Inquiry, in February 2014,
ISIL ordered Christians in Raqqa, Syria to
either convert to Islam, pay jizya, a tax spe-
cifically applied on the basis of religious be-
lief, and accept serious curbs on their faith,
or face execution;
Whereas according to the Department of
State, in August 2014, as ISIL began to ex-
pand beyond Mosul, an estimated 450,000
Yezidis, 300,000 Turkmen, and 125,000 Chris-
tians, as well as Iraqi Arabs, Shia Muslims,
Sunni Muslims, Shabak and other ethnic and
religious groups, were forced from their com-
munities;
Whereas in areas controlled by ISIL,
churches, monasteries and other places of
worship have effectively been shuttered and
do not publicly conduct worship services;
Whereas, on August 7, 2014, Secretary of
State John Kerry declared that ''ISIL's cam-
paign of terror against the innocent, includ-
ing Yezidi and Christian minorities, and its
grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear
all the warning signs and hallmarks of geno-
cide'':
Whereas, in August 2014, the United States
conducted targeted airstrikes and humani-
tarian assistance operations to help break
the siege of Mount Sinjar, saving the lives of
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thousands of Yezidi men, women, and chil-
dren;
Whereas His Holiness, Pope Francis, has
noted that ''entire communities, especially
but not onlyChristians and Yezidis, have
suffered and are still suffering inhuman vio-
lence because off their ethnic and religious
identity'' and stated that, for Christians
being killed for their faith in the Middle
East ''a form of genocideI insist on the
wordis taking place, and it must end'';
Whereas a March 13, 2015, report by the Of-
fice of the United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Human Rights detailed ''acts of vi-
olence perpetrated [by ISIL] against civil-
ians because of their affiliation or perceived
affiliation to an ethnic or religious group''
and stated that ''[i]t is reasonable to con-
clude that some of these incidents, consid-
ering the overall information, may con-
stitute genocide'';
Whereas, on December 7, 2015, the United
States Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom called on the United States
Government ''to designate the Christian,
Yezidi, Shi'a, Turkmen, and Shabak commu-
nities of Iraq and Syria as victims of geno-
cide by ISIL'' and urged world leaders ''to
condemn the genocidal actions and crimes
against humanity of ISIL that have been di-
rected at these groups and other ethnic and
religious groups'';
Whereas, on February 3, 2016, the European
Parliament expressed the view that ISIL ''is
committing genocide against Christians and
Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic mi-
norities''; and
Whereas, on March 17, 2016, Secretary of
State John Kerry issued a declaration stat-
ing, that in his judgement, ''Da'esh is re-
sponsible for genocide against groups in
areas under its control, including Yezidis,
Christians, and Shia Muslims,'' and is ''also
responsible for crimes against humanity and
ethnic cleansing directed at these same
groups and in some cases against Sunni Mus-
lims and Kurds and other minorities'': Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate
that
(1) the atrocities perpetrated by the Is-
lamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
against Christians, Yezidis, Shi'a, and other
religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and
Syria constitute war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and genocide;
(2) all governments, and international or-
ganizations should call ISIL atrocities by
their rightful names: war crimes, crimes
against humanity, and genocide;
(3) the member states of the United Na-
tions should coordinate urgently on meas-
ures to prevent further war crimes, crimes
against humanity, and genocide by ISIL in
Iraq and Syria, and to punish those respon-
sible for these ongoing crimes, including by
the collection and preservation of evidence
and, if necessary, the establishment and op-
eration of appropriate tribunals;
(4) the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the
Lebanese Republic, the Republic of Turkey,
and the Kurdistan Regional Government in
Iraq are to be commended for, and supported
in, their efforts to shelter and protect those
fleeing the violence of ISIL and other com-
batants until they can safely return to their
homes in Iraq and Syria; and
(5) the protracted Syrian civil war and the
indiscriminate violence of the Assad regime
have contributed to the growth of ISIL and
will continue to do so as long as this conflict
continues.
S. RES. 340
Whereas Christians and other religious and
ethnic minorities have been an integral part of
the cultural fabric of the Middle East for mil-
lennia;
Whereas the Islamic State in Iraq and the Le-
vant (ISIL or Da'esh) and associated extremists
are committing egregious atrocities against eth-
nic and religious minorities in Iraq and Syria,
including Christians (among them Assyrian
Chaldean Syriac, Armenian, Evangelicals,
Antiochian and Greek Orthodox, Maronite,
Melkite, and Roman Catholic communities),
Yezidis, Turkmen, Shi'a, Shabak, Sabaean-
Mandeans, and Kaka'i, among others;
Whereas ISIL specifically targets these reli-
gious and ethnic minorities, intending to kill
them or force their submission, conversion, or
expulsion;
Whereas religious and ethnic minorities have
been murdered, subjugated, forced to emigrate,
and subjected to grievous bodily and psycho-
logical harm, kidnapping, human trafficking,
torture, and rape;
Whereas ISIL engages in, and publicly argues
in favor of, the sexual enslavement of non-Mus-
lim women, including prepubescent girls;
Whereas the United Nations Assistance Mis-
sion for Iraq (UNAMI) and the United Nations
Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said in a Janu-
ary 2016 report that it believes ISIL is holding
around 3,500 slaves, predominantly women and
children, ''primarily from the Yezidi community,
but a number are also from other ethnic and re-
ligious minority communities'';
Whereas ISIL specifically targets religious
and ethnic minorities, and has reportedly kid-
napped, forcibly displaced, killed, raped, elec-
trocuted, and crucified members of ethnic and
religious groups, including Christian, Shabak,
Turkmen, and Shia of all ethnicities;
Whereas ISIL has deliberately destroyed and
looted numerous cultural sites, religious shrines,
places of worship, monasteries, and museums in
order to eradicate the cultures of ethnic and re-
ligious minorities;
Whereas these atrocities have been under-
taken with the specific intent to bring about the
eradication of those communities and the de-
struction of their cultural heritage;
Whereas ISIL operations have in fact driven
minority religious and ethnic communities from
their ancestral homelands;
Whereas under applicable domestic and inter-
national law codified in section 2441 of title 18,
United States Code, murder, torture, mutilation,
rape, cruel treatment, and hostage taking of
non-combatants constitute war crimes;
Whereas crimes against humanity, as defined
by the International Military Tribunal con-
vened at Nuremberg in 1945, include murder, ex-
termination, enslavement, deportation, and
other inhumane acts committed against any ci-
vilian population, as well as persecution on po-
litical, racial, or religious grounds in connection
with such crimes;
Whereas the United Nations Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, signed and ratified by the United
States, defines genocide as ''any of the fol-
lowing acts committed with the intent to de-
stroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing
members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily
or mental harm to members of the group; (c) De-
liberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life calculated to bring about its physical de-
struction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing
measures intended to prevent births within the
group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group'';
Whereas according to the United Nations
Commission of Inquiry, in February 2014, ISIL
ordered Christians in Raqqa, Syria to either
convert to Islam, pay jizya, a tax specifically
applied on the basis of religious belief, and ac-
cept serious curbs on their faith, or face execu-
tion;
Whereas according to the Department of
State, in August 2014, as ISIL began to expand
beyond Mosul, an estimated 450,000 Yezidis,
300,000 Turkmen, and 125,000 Christians, as well
as Iraqi Arabs, Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims,
Shabak and other ethnic and religious groups,
were forced from their communities;
Whereas in areas controlled by ISIL, church-
es, monasteries and other places of worship
have effectively been shuttered and do not pub-
licly conduct worship services;
Whereas, on August 7, 2014, Secretary of State
John Kerry declared that ''ISIL's campaign of
terror against the innocent, including Yezidi
and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and
targeted acts of violence bear all the warning
signs and hallmarks of genocide'':
Whereas, in August 2014, the United States
conducted targeted airstrikes and humanitarian
assistance operations to help break the siege of
Mount Sinjar, saving the lives of thousands of
Yezidi men, women, and children;
Whereas His Holiness, Pope Francis, has
noted that ''entire communities, especiallybut
not onlyChristians and Yezidis, have suffered
and are still suffering inhuman violence because
off their ethnic and religious identity'' and stat-
ed that, for Christians being killed for their
faith in the Middle East ''a form of genocide
I insist on the wordis taking place, and it
must end'';
Whereas a March 13, 2015, report by the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights detailed ''acts of violence per-
petrated [by ISIL] against civilians because of
their affiliation or perceived affiliation to an
ethnic or religious group'' and stated that ''[i]t
is reasonable to conclude that some of these in-
cidents, considering the overall information,
may constitute genocide'';
Whereas, on December 7, 2015, the United
States Commission on International Religious
Freedom called on the United States Govern-
ment ''to designate the Christian, Yezidi, Shi'a,
Turkmen, and Shabak communities of Iraq and
Syria as victims of genocide by ISIL'' and urged
world leaders ''to condemn the genocidal actions
and crimes against humanity of ISIL that have
been directed at these groups and other ethnic
and religious groups'';
Whereas, on February 3, 2016, the European
Parliament expressed the view that ISIL ''is
committing genocide against Christians and
Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic minori-
ties''; and
Whereas, on March 17, 2016, Secretary of
State John Kerry issued a declaration stating,
that in his judgement, ''Da'esh is responsible for
genocide against groups in areas under its con-
trol, including Yezidis, Christians, and Shia
Muslims,'' and is ''also responsible for crimes
against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed
at these same groups and in some cases against
Sunni Muslims and Kurds and other minori-
ties'': Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate
that
(1) the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against
Christians, Yezidis, Shi'a, and other religious
and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria con-
stitute war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and genocide;
(2) all governments, and international organi-
zations should call ISIL atrocities by their right-
ful names: war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and genocide;
(3) the member states of the United Nations
should coordinate urgently on measures to pre-
vent further war crimes, crimes against human-
ity, and genocide by ISIL in Iraq and Syria, and
to punish those responsible for these ongoing
crimes, including by the collection and preserva-
tion of evidence and, if necessary, the establish-
ment and operation of appropriate tribunals;
(4) the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the
Lebanese Republic, the Republic of Turkey, and
the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq are
to be commended for, and supported in, their ef-
forts to shelter and protect those fleeing the vio-
lence of ISIL and other combatants until they
can safely return to their homes in Iraq and
Syria; and
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(5) the protracted Syrian civil war and the in-
discriminate violence of the Assad regime have
contributed to the growth of ISIL and will con-
tinue to do so as long as this conflict continues.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the com-
mittee-reported amendment to the res-
olution be agreed to, the resolution, as
amended, be agreed to, the committee-
reported amendment to the preamble
be agreed to, the preamble, as amend-
ed, be agreed to, and the committee-re-
ported title amendment be agreed to,
and the motions to reconsider be con-
sidered made and laid upon the table
with no intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The committee-reported amendment
in the nature of a substitute was
agreed to.
The resolution (S. Res. 340), as
amended, was agreed to.
The committee-reported amendment
to the preamble in the nature of a sub-
stitute was agreed to.
The preamble, as amended, was
agreed to.
The committee-reported title amend-
ment was agreed to, as follows:
Amend the title so as to read: ''A resolu-
tion expressing the sense of the Senate that
the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against
religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and
Syria include war crimes, crimes against hu-
manity, and genocide.''.
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MEGABYTE ACT OF 2015
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Sen-
ate proceed to the immediate consider-
ation of Calendar No. 533, S. 2340.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A bill (S. 2340) to require the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget to
issue a directive on the management of soft-
ware licenses, and for other purposes.
There being no objection, the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill, which
had been reported from the Committee
on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs, with an amendment to
strike all after the enacting clause and
insert in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ''Making Elec-
tronic Government Accountable By Yielding
Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016'' or the
''MEGABYTE Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF
SOFTWARE LICENSES.
(a) DEFINITIONS.In this section
(1) the term ''Director'' means the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget; and
(2) the term ''Executive agency'' has the
meaning given that term in section 105 of title 5,
United States Code.
(b) OMB DIRECTIVE.The Director shall issue
a directive to require the Chief Information Offi-
cer of each Executive agency to develop a com-
prehensive software licensing policy, which
shall
(1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and
central oversight authority within the Executive
agency for managing enterprise software license
agreements and commercial software licenses;
and
(2) require the Chief Information Officer of
each Executive agency to
(A) establish a comprehensive inventory, in-
cluding 80 percent of software license spending
and enterprise licenses in the Executive agency,
by identifying and collecting information about
software license agreements using automated
discovery and inventory tools;
(B) regularly track and maintain software li-
censes to assist the Executive agency in imple-
menting decisions throughout the software li-
cense management life cycle;
(C) analyze software usage and other data to
make cost-effective decisions;
(D) provide training relevant to software li-
cense management;
(E) establish goals and objectives of the soft-
ware license management program of the Execu-
tive agency; and
(F) consider the software license management
life cycle phases, including the requisition, re-
ception, deployment and maintenance, retire-
ment, and disposal phases, to implement effec-
tive decision-making and incorporate existing
standards, processes, and metrics.
(c) REPORT ON SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGE-
MENT.
(1) IN GENERAL.Beginning in the first fiscal
year beginning after the date of enactment of
this Act, and in each of the following 5 fiscal
years, the Chief Information Officer of each Ex-
ecutive agency shall submit to the Director a re-
port on the financial savings or avoidance of
spending that resulted from improved software
license management.
(2) AVAILABILITY.The Director shall make
each report submitted under paragraph (1) pub-
lically available.
Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous
consent that the committee-reported
substitute amendment be agreed to,
the bill, as amended, be read a third
time and passed, and the motion to re-
consider be considered made and laid
upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The committee-reported amendment
in the nature of a substitute was
agreed to.
The bill (S. 2340), as amended, was or-
dered to be engrossed for a third read-
ing, was read the third time, and
passed.
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KENNETH M. CHRISTY POST
OFFICE BUILDING
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs be discharged from
further consideration of H.R. 4960 and
the Senate proceed to its immediate
consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A bill (H.R. 4960) to designate the facility
of the United States Postal Service located
at 525 N Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the
''Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building.''
There being no objection, the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the bill be
read a third time and passed, and the
motion to reconsider be considered
made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (H.R. 4960) was ordered to a
third reading, was read the third time,
and passed.
BARRY G. MILLER POST OFFICE
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs be discharged from
further consideration of H.R. 4372 and
the Senate proceed to its immediate
consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A bill (H.R. 4372) to designate the facility
of the United States Postal Service located
at 15 Rochester Street, Bergen, New York, as
the Barry G. Miller Post Office.
There being no objection, the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the bill be
read a third time and passed, and the
motion to reconsider be considered
made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (H.R. 4372) was ordered to a
third reading, was read the third time,
and passed.
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NATIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER
APPRECIATION DAY
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Sen-
ate proceed to the consideration of S.
Res. 522, submitted earlier today.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will report the resolution by
title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A bill (S. Res. 522) designating July 30,
2016, as ''National Whistleblower Apprecia-
tion Day.''
There being no objection, the Senate
proceeded to consider the resolution.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the reso-
lution be agreed to, the preamble be
agreed to, and the motions to recon-
sider be considered made and laid upon
the table with no intervening action or
debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The resolution (S. Res. 522) was
agreed to.
The preamble was agreed to.
(The resolution, with its preamble, is
printed in today's RECORD under ''Sub-
mitted Resolutions.'')
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RELATING TO THE DEATH OF ELIE
WIESEL
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the Sen-
ate proceed to the consideration of S.
Res. 523, submitted earlier today.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will report the resolution by
title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk
read as follows:
A resolution (S. Res. 523) relating to the
death of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor,
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