[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 125 (Friday, September 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8037]
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 joint 
resolution of the House of the following title:

       H.J. Res. 128. Joint resolution making continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 1999, and for other 
     purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate had passed with amendments 
in which the concurrence of the House is requested, bills of the House 
of the following titles:

       H.R. 2281. An act to amend title 17, United States Code, to 
     implement the World Intellectual Property Organization 
     Copyright Treaty and Performances and Phonograms Treaty, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 3874. An act to amend the National School Lunch Act 
     and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide children with 
     increased access to food and nutrition assistance, to 
     simplify program operations and improve program management, 
     to extend certain authorities contained in those Acts through 
     fiscal year 2003, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 2281) ``An Act to amend title 17, United States Code, 
to implement the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright 
Treaty and Performances and Phonograms Treaty, and for other 
purposes,'' requests a conference with the House on the disagreeing 
votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Hatch, Mr. Thurmond, 
and Mr. Leahy, to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 3874) ``an Act to amend the National School Lunch Act 
and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide children with increased 
access to food and nutrition assistance, to simplify program operations 
and improve program management, to extend certain authorities contained 
in those Acts through fiscal year 2003, and for other purposes,'' 
requests a conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the 
two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Lugar, Mr. Cochran, Mr. McConnell, 
Mr. Harkin, and Mr. Leahy, to be the conferees on the part of the 
Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate had passed bills and a 
concurrent resolution of the following titles, in which the concurrence 
of the House is requested:

       S. 1770. An act to elevate the position of Director of the 
     Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and 
     Human Services to Assistant Secretary for Indian Health, and 
     for other purposes.
       S. 1998. An act to authorize an interpretive center and 
     related visitor facilities within the Four Corners Monument 
     Tribal Park, and for other purposes.
       S. 2193. An act to implement the provisions of the 
     Trademark Law Treaty.
       S. Con. Res. 103. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of the Congress in support of the recommendations of 
     the International Commission of Jurists on Tibet and on 
     United States policy with regard to Tibet.

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