[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H2350-H2351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       60. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Legislature of the 
     State of Oklahoma, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 
     No. 1013 memorializing Congress to request the Secretary of 
     the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take certain action 
     regarding the Export Enhancement Program; and directing 
     distribution; to the Committee on Agriculture.
       61. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 8008 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact 
     appropriate legislation to retain the battleship U.S.S. 
     Missouri (BB 63) at a selected site on the mainland; to the 
     Committee on National Security.
       62. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Hawaii, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 107HD1 
     urging the U.S. Congress to proceed with the funding of the 
     new carrier known as CVN-77, and homeporting the ship at 
     Pearl Harbor; to the Committee on National Security.
       63. Also, memorial of the Senate of the Commonwealth of 
     Massachusetts, relative to a Senate resolution memorializing 
     the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to prevent Government 
     subsidized foreign competition in the production of U.S. 
     currency paper; to the Committee on Banking and Financial 
     Services.
       64. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Montana, relative to House Joint Resolution 18 urging 
     Congress to enact legislation to revise the process by which 
     new drugs, biological products, and medical devices are 
     approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; to the 
     Committee on Commerce.
       65. Also, memorial of the House of Representatives of the 
     State of Alabama, relative to House Resolution 288 urging the 
     U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reaffirm the existing 
     air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter; to 
     the Committee on Commerce.
       66. Also, memorial of the Senate of the State of Hawaii, 
     relative to Senate Resolution No. 42 urging the Congress of 
     the United States to prohibit the participation of American 
     corporations in the deforestation of tropical rainforests; to 
     the Committee on Commerce.
       67. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to House Joint Resolution 4005 
     requesting that, except for needed buffer zones, the present 
     boundaries of the Department of Energy's Hanford control zone 
     on the Wahluke Slope be reduced to the areas south of the 
     Columbia River and that the Wahluke Slope presently under the 
     custody and control of the Department of energy be 
     transferred in total to the counties of Grant, Franklin, and 
     Adams for the purpose of returning the land to its former 
     agricultural use; to the Committee on Commerce.
       68. Also, memorial of the Senate of the State of Georgia, 
     relative to Senate Resolution 205 urging the President and 
     Congress of the United States to support the admission of the 
     Republic of Poland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 
     to the Committee on International Relations.
       69. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Virginia, relative to House Joint Resolution 
     No. 415 memorializing the Congress of the United States to 
     direct the General Accounting Office to update its 1987 
     report on Federal grant-in-aid formulas; to the Committee on 
     Government Reform and Oversight.
       70. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of New 
     Mexico, relative to Senate Joint Memorial 26 requesting the 
     Congress of the United States to support H.R. 260 before 
     Congress to create a Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty Land Claims 
     Commission; to the Committee on Resources.
       71. Also, memorial of the Senate of the Commonwealth of the 
     Mariana Islands, relative to Senate Resolution No. 10-32 
     expressing support for Guam's quest for Commonwealth status; 
     to the Committee on Resources.
       72. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the State of 
     Nevada, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 2 urging 
     Congress to amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act or 
     to enact other legislation to facilitate the use of Federal 
     land for affordable housing; to the Committee on Resources.
       73. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the State of 
     Rhode Island, relative to a Senate resolution memorializing 
     Congress to enact a constitutional amendment protecting the 
     Nation's natural resources; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       74. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 38 urging the 
     Congress of the United States to support the passage of the 
     Streamlined Transportation Efficiency Program for the 21st 
     Century [STEP 21]; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       75. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Virginia, relative to House Joint Resolution 
     No. 571 memorializing the President and Congress of the 
     United States to provide full Federal funding to replace the 
     Woodrow Wilson Bridge, its interchanges and approaches; to 
     the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       76. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Virginia, relative to House Joint Resolution 
     No. 495 memorializing Congress to reauthorize the Federal 
     Surface Transportation Program by replacing outdated formulas 
     with factors reflecting use, such as those identified in STEP 
     21; providing better equity in the distribution of highway 
     funds to States; and authorizing funding for multimodal 
     transit

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     services and highways; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       77. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Virginia, relative to House Joint Resolution 
     No. 401 memorializing the Congress of the United States to 
     authorize and fund the construction of a veterans' medical 
     facility in northern Virginia; to the Committee on Veterans' 
     Affairs.
       78. Also, memorial of the Senate of the Commonwealth of 
     Massachusetts, relative to a Senate resolution memorializing 
     Congress and the President of the United States to reject 
     proposals to consolidate and close veterans hospitals; to the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       79. Also, memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Virginia, relative to House Joint Resolution 
     No. 618 memorializing the Congress of the United States to 
     continue the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
       80. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Oklahoma, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 1010 
     encouraging the U.S. Congress not to repeal certain tax 
     incentives on former Indian reservations; encouraging 
     Congress to request the Internal Revenue Service to recognize 
     and comply with certain Federal law and issue certain ruling; 
     and providing for distribution; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
       81. Also, memorial of the Senate of the State of Georgia, 
     relative to Senate Resolution 387 strongly urging the United 
     States Congress and the United States International Trade 
     Representative to recognize the economic and environmental 
     benefits of Georgia's magnificent forest resources, strongly 
     urging that the Congress and the United States Trade 
     Representative not rescind the international trade agreement 
     limiting the amount of subsidized Canadian lumber imported 
     duty-free into the United States; to the Committee on Ways 
     and Means.
       82. Also, memorial of the House of Representatives of the 
     State of Georgia, relative to House Resolution No. 360 
     requesting the U.S. Congress to authorize through legislation 
     one or more State pilot projects to ascertain the feasibility 
     of devolving the unemployment insurance system back to State 
     control; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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