[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 21 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S1435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:55 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Goetz, one of its reading clerks, announced that pursuant to the 
provisions of section 203(b)(1) of Public Law 105-134, the Chair 
announces the Speaker's appointment of the following individuals on the 
part of the House to the Amtrak Reform Council for a term of five 
years: Mrs. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, Mr. Bruce Chapman of 
Washington, and Mr. Christopher Gleason of Pennsylvania.
  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 856. An act to provide a process leading to full self-
     government for Puerto Rico.

  At 3:20 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Goetz, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 2369. An act to amend the Communications Act of 1934 
     to strengthen and clarify prohibitions on electronic 
     eavesdropping, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3130. An act to provide for an alternative penalty 
     procedure for States that fail to meet Federal child support 
     data processing requirements, to reform Federal incentive 
     payments for effective child support performance, to provide 
     for a more flexible penalty procedure for States that violate 
     interjurisdictional adoption requirements, to amend the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act to make certain aliens 
     determined to be delinquent in the payment of child support 
     inadmissible and ineligible for naturalization, and for other 
     purposes.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the 
resolution (H. Res. 379) that the bill of the Senate (S. 104) to amend 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, in the opinion of this House, 
contravenes the first clause of the seventh section of the first 
article of the Constitution of the United States and is an infringement 
of the privileges of this House and that such bill be respectfully 
returned to the Senate with a message communicating this resolution.

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