[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10424-S10425]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 10:44 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, without amendment

       S. 1669. An act to name the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     medical center in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ``G.V. (Sonny) 
     Montgomery Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center.

  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 3539. An act to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3863. An act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 
     to permit lenders under the unsubsidized Federal Family 
     Education Loan program to pay origination fee on behalf of 
     borrowers.

  The Message further announced that the House disagrees to the 
amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3666) making appropriations 
for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, 
corporations, and offices for

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the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes, and 
agrees to the conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes 
of the two Houses thereon; and appoints Mr. Lewis of California, Mr. 
DeLay, Mrs. Vucanovich, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. 
Frelinghuysen, Mr. Neumann, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Stokes, Mr. Mollohan, 
Mr. Chapman, Ms. Kaptur, and Mr. Obey as the managers of the conference 
on the part of the House.
  The message also announced that the House disagrees to the amendment 
of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2202) to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the 
United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, 
by increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by 
reforming exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving 
the verification system for eligibility for employment, and through 
other measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate 
legal entries into the United States, and for other purposes, and 
agrees to the conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes 
of the two Houses thereon; and appoints Mr. Hyde, Mr. Smith of Texas, 
Mr. Gallegly, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Bryant of Tennessee, Mr. 
Bono, Mr. Goodling, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Conyers 
Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Berman, Mr. Bryant of Texas, Mr. 
Becerra, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Green of Texas, and Mr. Jacobs as the 
managers of the conference on the part of the House.
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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 report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes 
of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
3816) making appropriations for energy and water development for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
  The message also announced that the House agrees to the amendment of 
the Senate to the bill (H.R. 1642) to extend nondiscriminatory 
treatment--most-favored-nation treatment--to the products of Cambodia, 
and for other purposes.


                         enrolled bills signed

  A message from the House of Representatives, delivered by one of its 
reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has signed the following 
enrolled bills:

       S. 1669. An act to name the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     medical center in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ``G.V. (Sonny) 
     Montgomery Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.''
       H.R. 1642. An act to extend nondiscriminatory treatment 
     (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of Cambodia, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3230. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 1997 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.

  The enrolled bills were signed subsequently by the President pro 
tempore (Mr. Thurmond).

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