[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 23748]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    ABOLITION OF MODERN-DAY SLAVERY

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign 
Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 
549, and the Senate now proceed to its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 549) expressing the sense of the 
     Senate regarding modern-day slavery.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution 
be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider 
be laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 549) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

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