[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 125 (Thursday, September 18, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7531]
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 clerks, 
announced that the Senate had passed without amendment a concurrent 
resolution of the House of the following title:

       H. Con. Res. 134. Concurrent resolution authorizing the use 
     of the rotunda of the Capitol to allow Members of Congress to 
     greet and receive His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew.

  The message also announced that the Senate had passed with amendments 
in which the concurrence of the House is requested, bills of the House 
of the following titles:

       H.R. 2264. An act making appropriations for the Departments 
     of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
     related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     1998, and for other purposes, and
       H.R. 2378. An act making appropriations for the Treasury 
     Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive 
     Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other 
     purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 2264) ``An Act making appropriations for the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for 
other purposes,'' requests a conference with the House on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Specter, 
Mr. Cochran, Mr. Gorton, Mr. Bond, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. Craig, 
Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Hollins, Mr. Inouye, Mr. 
Bumpers, Mr. Reid, Mr. Kohl, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Byrd, to be the 
conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 2378) ``An Act making appropriations for the Treasury 
Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of 
the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes,'' requests a 
conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
thereon, and appoints Mr. Campbell, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. 
Kohl, and Ms. Mikulski, to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 101-445, the 
Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore, appoints Charles H. 
White, of Mississippi, to the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory 
Council.

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