[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7833]
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 bills of the 
House of the following titles:

       H.R. 2248. An act to authorize the President to award a 
     gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Ecumenical Patriarch 
     Bartholomew in recognition of his outstanding and enduring 
     contributions toward religious understanding and peace, and 
     for other purposes; and
       H.R. 2443. An act to designate the Federal building located 
     at 601 Fourth Street, NW., in the District of Columbia, as 
     the ``Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field 
     Office Memorial Building'', in honor of William H. Christian, 
     Jr., Martha Dixon Martinez, Michael J. Miller, Anthony 
     Palmisano, and Edwin R. Woodriffe.

  The message also announced that the Senate agrees to the report of 
the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2209) ``An Act making 
appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.''
  The message also announced that the Senate had passed bills of the 
following titles, in which the concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 542. An act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation 
     to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
     endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the 
     vessel FAR HORIZONS;
       S. 662. An act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation 
     to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
     endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the 
     vessel VORTICE;
       S. 830. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the 
     regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, 
     and for other purposes; and
       S. 880. An act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation 
     to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
     endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the 
     vessel DUSKEN IV.

                          ____________________