[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 105 (Thursday, July 30, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S9389]
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 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND 
             INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to the order of July 16, l998, the 
Senate having received H.R. 4194, the provisions of the unanimous 
consent agreement are executed.
  The provisions of the unanimous consent agreement are as follows:
       That when the companion measure to S. 2168, a bill making 
     appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
     Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent 
     agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other 
     purposes, is received from the House of Representatives, the 
     Senate proceed to its immediate consideration; that all after 
     the enacting clause of the House bill be stricken and the 
     text of S. 2168, as passed, be inserted in lieu thereof; that 
     the House bill, as amended, be read for a third time and 
     passed; that the Senate insist on its amendment, request a 
     conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two 
     Houses, and that the Chair be authorized to appoint the 
     following conferees on the part of the Senate: Mr. Bond, Mr. 
     Burns, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Craig, Ms. 
     Mikulski, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Harkin, and Mr. 
     Byrd; and that the foregoing occur without any intervening 
     action or debate.
       Ordered further, That upon passage of the House companion 
     measure, as amended, the passage of S. 2168 be vitiated and 
     the bill be indefinitely postponed.

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