[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 132 (Monday, September 29, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8161]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       22. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Louisiana 
     Municipal Association, relative to a resolution memorializing 
     the Congress of the United States to act to grant to the 
     states the authority needed to enforce the collection of 
     sales taxes on interstate catalog sales; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.
       23. Also, a petition of Gregory D. Watson of Austin, Texas, 
     relative to bringing to the attention of Congress a 
     significant correction as to the sequence of events leading 
     to the 1992 ratification of the 27th article of amendment to 
     the United States Constitution, and referencing action taken 
     by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky two 
     centuries earlier in the year 1792; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       24. Also, a petition of the County of Los Angeles, Board of 
     Supervisors, relative to requesting that Federal and State 
     legislation be enacted to allow men and women from the 
     military to obtain credit for their training so that their 
     skills are transferable to the private sector and to other 
     government agencies; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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