[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER

  Mr. STUMP. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the 
Speaker's table the Senate bill (S. 1669) to name the Department of 
Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, MS as the ``G.V. (Sonny) 
Montgomery Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center,'' and ask for 
its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the Senate bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Roth). Is there objection to the request 
of the gentleman from Arizona?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the Senate bill, as follows:

                                S. 1669

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

     SECTION 1. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL 
                   CENTER, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.

       (a) Name.--The Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
     center in Jackson, Mississippi, shall be known and designated 
     as the ``G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Department of Veterans 
     Affairs Medical Center''. Any reference to such medical 
     center in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or 
     other paper of the United States shall be considered to be a 
     reference to the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Department of 
     Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
       (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect at 
     noon on January 3, 1997.

  The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the 
third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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