[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 49 (Wednesday, April 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1717]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Mr. Lundregan, one of its clerk, 
announced that the Senate had passed a bill of the following title in 
which the concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 495. An act to provide criminal and civil penalties for 
     the unlawful acquisition, transfer, or use of any chemical 
     weapon or biological weapon, and to reduce the threat of acts 
     of terrorism or armed aggression involving the use of any 
     such weapon against the United States, its citizens, or Armed 
     Forces, or those of any allied country, and for other 
     purposes.

  The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 104-201, the 
Chair, on behalf of the majority leader, after consultation with the 
Democratic leader, appoints the following individuals as members of the 
Commission on Maintaining United States Nuclear Weapons Expertise: 
Henry G. Chiles, Jr. of Virginia; and Robert A. Hoover of Idaho.

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