[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D6-D7]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 9 public bills, H.R. 2842-2850; and 4 resolutions, 
H.J. Res. 156 and H. Res. 331-333 were introduced.
  Page H187
Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:
  H.R. 2130, to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to improve the 
efficiency and operation of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
Corporation in order better to ensure that farmers, ranchers and rural 
home owners will have access to a stable and competitive supply of 
mortgage credit now and in the future, amended (H. Rept. 104-446, Part 
I); and
  H. Res. 334, providing for consideration of a motion to dispose of 
the Senate amendment to H.R. 1643, to authorize the extension of 
nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the 
products of Bulgaria (H. Rept. 104-447).
Pages H185-86
Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
designates Representative LaHood to act as Speaker pro tempore for 
today.
  Page H93
Interior Appropriations: By a yea-and-nay vote of 239 yeas to 177 nays, 
Roll No. 5, the House sustained the President's veto of H.R. 1977, 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996 (two-thirds of 
those present not voting to override. Subsequently, the message and the 
bill were referred to the Committee on Appropriations).
  Pages H111-20
  Earlier, agreed to the Regula motion to discharge the Committee on 
Appropriations from further consideration of the veto of the bill by a 
voice vote.
Pages H98-H111
Recess: House recessed at 11:16 p.m. and reconvened at 11:40 p.m.

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Senate Messages: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H111.
Quorum Calls--Votes: One yea-and-nay vote developed during the 
proceedings of the House today and appears on page H120. There were no 
quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 11:41 p.m.