[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 42 (Monday, March 25, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S2801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 10:02 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Goetz, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
House:

       H.R. 2969. An act to eliminate the Board of Tea Experts by 
     repealing the Tea Importation Act of 1897.

  The message also announced that the House agrees to the resolution 
(H. Res. 387) returning to the Senate the bill (S. 1518) to eliminate 
the Board of Tea Experts by prohibiting funding for the Board and by 
repealing the Tea Importation Act of 1987, in the opinion of this 
House, contravenes the first clause of the seventh section of the first 
article of the Constitution of the United States and is an infringement 
of the privileges of this House and that such bill be respectfully 
returned to the Senate.
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  At 1:46 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Goetz, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 125. An act to repeal the ban on semiautomatic assault 
     weapons and the ban on large capacity ammunition feeding 
     devices.

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