[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1978 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1978

   To designate the auditorium located within the Sandia Technology 
   Transfer Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the ``Steve Schiff 
                             Auditorium''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 23, 1998

 Mr. Domenici (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To designate the auditorium located within the Sandia Technology 
   Transfer Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the ``Steve Schiff 
                             Auditorium''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Congressman Steve Schiff represented the First 
        Congressional District of New Mexico in Congress from 1988 to 
        1998 with honor and distinction.
            (2) Mr. Schiff chaired the Subcommittee on Basic Research 
        of the Committee on Science emphasizing protection and 
        improvement of America's economic and military strength into 
        the 21st century through the support of a robust national 
        science and technology infrastructure.
            (3) Mr. Schiff was a tireless advocate of facilitating the 
        transfer of technologies developed at federally supported 
        institutions into the commercial sector.
            (4) Mr. Schiff supported technology transfer efforts at 
        Sandia National Laboratory, located in the First Congressional 
        District of New Mexico, including its cooperative research and 
        development programs, which have benefited the people of New 
        Mexico and the Nation as a whole.
            (5) Mr. Schiff's contributions should be acknowledged with 
        a fitting tribute within the district he so selflessly served.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION.

    The auditorium located within the Sandia Technology Transfer Center 
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and known as Building 825, shall be known 
and designated as the ``Steve Schiff Auditorium''.

SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the auditorium referred to in section 2 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Steve Schiff Auditorium''.
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