[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4628-H4629]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       335. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Senate of the 
     State of New Jersey, relative to Senate Resolution 11 urging 
     Congress and the President to terminate the services of 
     Lordship Industries, Inc. of Hauppage, New York as the 
     nation's primary manufacturer of United States Military 
     Medals; to the Committee on National Security.
       336. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Oklahoma, relative to House Concurrent 
     Resolution No. 1069 memorializing Congress to direct the 
     United States Consumer Product Safety Commission to adopt an 
     industry standard for bunk beds; and directing distribution; 
     to the Committee on Commerce.
       337. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution 98-
     1039 memorializing that BLM lands continue to be managed to 
     allow for multiple uses in accordance with existing resource 
     management plans until such time as plan amendments have been 
     lawfully adopted; to the Committee on Resources.
       338. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution 98-
     1031 memorializing that the General Assembly endorses the 
     modified Animas-La Plata Project proposed by the two Colorado 
     Ute Tribesand their non-Indian neighbors; to the Committee on 
     Resources.
       339. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the 
     Commonwealth of The Mariana Islands, relative to House 
     Resolution No. 11-40 Urgently and respectfully requesting 
     President Bill Clinton and the Legislative leadership of the 
     U.S. Congress to waive and/ or eliminate the matching fund 
     requirements being provided or granted under the Covenant to 
     help foster and expedite infrastructure development in the 
     CNMI; to the Committee on Resources.

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       340. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 16 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to support 
     and adopt legislation to provide for the sharing of revenues 
     generated through mineral exploration on the federal Outer 
     Continental Shelf with coastal states and territories 
     pursuant to a formula recommended by the Outer Continental 
     Shelf Policy Committee; to the Committee on Resources.
       341. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 35 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to support 
     and adopt legislation to provide for the sharing with coastal 
     states of revenues generated through mineral exploration on 
     the federal Outer Continental Shelf and territories pursuant 
     to a formula recommended by the Outer Continental Shelf 
     Policy Committee; to the Committee on Resources.
       342. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution 98-
     1036 memorializing the United States Congress to enact and 
     the President to sign the Aircraft Repair Station Safety Act 
     of 1997; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       343. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 42 
     urging the federal government, who is generating over three 
     billion dollars annually from royalties and lease sales in 
     the Gulf of Mexico, to help fund the necessary infrastructure 
     improvements to access the riches of the Gulf of Mexico; to 
     the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       344. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of New 
     Jersey, relative to Senate Resolution 27 memorializing the 
     opposition of any reduction in the budget of the United 
     States Department of Veterans Affairs which may negatively 
     affect the quality of veterans' health care in this State; to 
     the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       345. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution 98-
     1020 urging the Congress of the United States to enact 
     legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Code by December 
     31, 2000, and to replace it with a new system of federal 
     taxation; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       346. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Ohio, relative to House Resolution No. 397 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact 
     legislation that sunsets Title 26 of the United States Code, 
     otherwise known as the Internal Revenue Code, and to develop 
     and enact a new tax code for the American people by December 
     31, 2001; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       347. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Tennessee, relative to Senate Resolution No. 705 urging the 
     Congress of the United States not to take action to mandate 
     competition in the retail or wholesale of electricity without 
     special and careful consideration of the interests of the 
     people of the Tennessee Valley; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
       348. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Tennessee, relative to Senate Resolution No. 148 urging the 
     Congress of the United States to address this important issue 
     by not adopting the proposed amendments to the Stark II 
     regulations; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       349. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution 41 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to support 
     reauthorization of and funding for the Violence Against Women 
     Act of 1998; jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary and 
     Education and the Workforce.
       350. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Wisconsin, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 11 urging 
     President Clinton and the U.S. Congress to uphold the federal 
     government's commitment to accept and take title to civilian 
     spent nuclear fuel on January 31, 1998, through enactment of 
     appropriate funding resolutions and legislation that 
     authorize and fund the development of a federal centralized, 
     temporary storage facility for spent nuclear fuel that will 
     accept spent nuclear fuel between January 31, 1998 and the 
     beginning of commercial operation of the permanent federal 
     nuclear waste repository; jointly to the Committees on 
     Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Resources.

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