[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 150 (Tuesday, October 20, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H11696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       83. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the city of San 
     Jose, relative to a petition from the Mayor urging that the 
     1998 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) be considered by 
     the House of Representatives; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       84. Also, a petition of the Legislative Research 
     Commission, relative to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 
     urging the United States Congress and the 42nd President of 
     the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, to rescind 
     provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 related to an 
     interim payment system for Medicare home health services and 
     to work jointly with the Health Care Financing Administration 
     to develop any necessary amendments or changes in regulations 
     in a manner which does not disrupt, interrupt or eliminate 
     services to Medicare home health beneficiaries who are 
     dependent on home health; jointly to the Committees on Ways 
     and Means and Commerce.