[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE


                         enrolled bills signed

  At 12:04 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has 
signed the following enrolled bills:

       H.R. 2679. An act to revise the boundary of the North 
     Platte National Wildlife Refuge, to expand the Pettaquamscutt 
     Cover National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3060. An act to implement the Protocol on 
     Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.
       H.R. 3553. An act to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act 
     to authorize appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission.
       H.R. 3816. An act making appropriations for energy and 
     water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     1997, and for other purposes.
       S. 533. An act to clarify the rules governing removal of 
     cases to Federal court, and for other purposes.
       S. 677. An act to repeal a redundant venue provision, and 
     for other purposes.
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  At 12:55 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has 
signed the following enrolled bill:

       H.R. 3396. An act to define and protect the institution of 
     marriage.
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  At 2:55 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Goetz, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
disagrees to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2977) to 
reauthorize alternative means of dispute resolution in the Federal 
administrative process, 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. Gekas, Mr. Flanagan, Mr. 
Conyers, and Mr. Reed as the managers of the conference on the part of 
the House.
  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the senate:

       H.R. 2594. An act to amend the Railroad Unemployment 
     Insurance Act to reduce the waiting period for benefits 
     payable under that act, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2940. An act to amend the Deepwater Port Act of 1974.
       H.R. 3348. An act to direct the president to establish 
     standards and criteria for the provision of major disaster 
     and emergency assistance in response to snow-related events.
       H.R. 3923. An act to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     require the National Transportation Safety Board and 
     individual air carriers to take actions to address the needs 
     of families of passengers involved in aircraft accidents.
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  At 4:27 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House of 
Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H.R. 1833) to 
amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions, 
returned by the President of the United States with his objections, to 
the House of Representatives, in which it originated; that the said 
bill pass, two-thirds of House of Representatives agreeing to pass the 
same.

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