mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont is recognized. mr. leahy: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the privileges of the floor be granted to the following member of my staff. the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. leahy: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: i ask consent that jasper craven of my staff be given the privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. leahy: madam president, i ask that jeanette quicken, a detailee of the banking committee staff as well as anjani augusta and gina quinn on senator johnson's staff be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. leahy: i make that last request on behalf of the senator from south dakota. madam president, unfortunately, we have not seen many times when we've seen leg

mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the leahy-grassley substitute amendment be agreed to, read a third time, passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: and that there be no intervening action or debate and any statements appear in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to h.r. 1402. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 1402, an act to authorize the architect of the capitol to establish battery recharging stations and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read three times, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate, any statements be placed in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 3670. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. h.r. 3

mr. harry reid, i see harry reid. efforts rosa delauro, i was eager. senator leahy from vermont. i see him.and i've traveled all over the country for each one of those people. i've been to california for george miller, and i think in because it was his committee who named the ledbetter, a law leadbetter. and i'm told that i am the only albanian with a law named for the. it's not. and there's less than 35 and a history. i will be going back to seattle law school in seattle, washington, next month, and they have, there's lived there that's been doing the research. so this is not a common thing to have a law, and it's like congressman miller said, we don't name them for people like you, lilly. he said we named them for ourselves. who ever drafted the bill. any other questions? [inaudible] >> talk into the mic. >> before you got that note, did you suspicion, did you have any suspicions that you were not being paid? >> common sense would tell me based on the treatment and so forth at a lot of other things that you will read in the book, commonsense told me that they were not paying me what the m