[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S66]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:03 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Goetz, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
proceeded to reconsider the bill (H.R. 1530) to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other 
purposes, returned by the President of the United States with his 
objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated; 
the said bill did not pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives 
not agreeing to pass the same.
  The message also announced the House proceeded to reconsider the bill 
(H.R. 2076) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes, returned by the 
President of the United States with his objections, to the House of 
Representatives, in which it originated; the said bill did not pass, 
two-thirds of the House of Representatives not agreeing to pass the 
same.
  The message further announced that the House has passed the following 
joint resolution, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.J. Res. 153. Joint resolution making further continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other 
     purposes.
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  At 1:59 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House agrees 
to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2029) to amend the 
Farm Credit Act of 1971 to provide regulatory relief, and for other 
purposes, with an amendment, in which it requests the concurrence of 
the Senate.

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