[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4569]
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. 75. Concurrent resolution expressing the sense 
     of the Congress that States should work more aggressively to 
     attack the problem of violent crimes committed by repeat 
     offenders and criminals serving abbreviated sentences.

  The message also announced that the Senate had passed with amendments 
in which the concurrence of the House is requested, a bill and a 
concurrent resolution of the House of the following titles:

       H.R. 1853. An act to amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational 
     and Applied Technology Education Act.
       H. Con. Res. 284. Concurrent resolution revising the 
     congressional budget for the United States Government for 
     fiscal year 1998, establishing the congressional budget for 
     the United States Government for fiscal year 1999, and 
     setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 
     2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 629) ``An Act to grant the consent of the Congress to 
the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact,'' disagreed to 
by the House and agree to the conference asked by the House on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Thurmond, 
Mr. Hatch, and Mr. Leahy to be the conferees on the part of the Senate, 
with instructions.
  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 1853) ``An Act to amend the Carl D. Perkins 
Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act,'' and requests a 
conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
thereon, and appoints Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Coats, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Frist, 
Mr. DeWine, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Hutchinson, Ms. Collins, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
McConnell, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Harkin, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. 
Bingaman, Mr. Wellstone, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Reed to be the conferees 
on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the resolution (H. Con. Res. 284) ``A concurrent resolution revising 
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal 
year 1998, establishing the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 1999 and setting forth appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003,'' and requests a 
conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
thereon, and appoints Mr. Domenici, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Nickles, Mr. 
Gramm, Mr. Bond, Mr. Gorton, Mr. Gregg, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Abraham, Mr. 
Frist, Mr. Grams, Mr. Smith or Oregon, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Hollings, 
Mr. Conrad, Mr. Sarbanes, Mrs. Boxer, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wyden, Mr. 
Feingold, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Durbin to be the conferees on the part 
of the Senate.

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