[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 21, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S163]
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            SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS

  The following concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions were 
read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated:
           By Mr. MACK (for himself, Mr. Gramm, Mr. First, Mr. 
             D'Amato, and Mr. Specter):
       S. Res. 15. A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate 
     that the Federal commitment to biomedical research should be 
     increased substantially over the next 5 years; to the 
     Committee on Appropriations.
           By Mr. LUGAR:
       S. Res. 16. A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate 
     that the income tax should be eliminated and replaced with a 
     national sales tax; to the Committee on Finance.
       S. Res. 17. A resolution on the ratification of the 
     Chemical Weapons Convention; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.
           By Mr. FAIRCLOTH:
       S. Res. 18. A resolution to express the sense of the Senate 
     regarding reduction of the national debt; to the Committee on 
     the Budget and the Committee on Governmental Affairs, 
     jointly, pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977 with 
     instructions that if one Committee reports, the other 
     Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.
           By Mr. MOYNIHAN (for himself, Mr. Helms, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
             Jeffords, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Feingold, and Mr. Wellstone):
       S. Res. 19. A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate 
     regarding United States opposition to the prison sentence of 
     Tibetan ethnomusicologist Ngawang Choephel by the Government 
     of the People's Republic of China; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations.

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