[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5092-H5093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       124. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the House of 
     Representatives of the State of New Hampshire, relative to 
     House Resolution No. 9 memorializing the federal government 
     to make full funding of the Land and Resource Management Plan 
     its highest priority regarding its ownership and management 
     of the White Mountain National Forest; to the Committee on 
     Agriculture.
       125. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of Nevada, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 15 
     memorializing Congress to rectify inequities that occur 
     between federal and state regulatory agencies regarding the 
     Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 as it relates 
     to appeals processes; to the Committee on Education and the 
     Workforce.
       126. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Hawaii, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 
     No. 219 memorializing the United States Congress, the 
     President of the United States, and the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services to support the Hawaii Congressional 
     delegation to amend the Social Security Act to increase 
     Hawaii's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage; to the 
     Committee on Commerce.
       127. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Nebraska, relative to Legislative Resolution No. 43 
     memorializing Congress to direct the federal Environmental 
     Protection Agency to curtail implementation of new 
     restrictions from its Reregistration Eligibility Decision 
     (RED) on phosphide gas that would require a 500-foot buffer 
     zone and other restrictions that effectively preclude the use 
     of aluminum or magnesium phosphide in most of Nebraska's 
     grain storage facilities and grain transportation; to the 
     Committee on Commerce.
       128. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Missouri, relative to House Concurrent 
     Resolutions Nos. 24 and 15 memorializing support of state 
     retention of all state tobacco settlement funds; to the 
     Committee on Commerce.
       129. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 2 memorializing 
     the Congress of the United States to pass legislation 
     reallocating funding to the states from the Federal Land and 
     Water Conservation Fund; to the Committee on Resources.
       130. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the Commonwealth of The Mariana Islands, relative to House 
     Resolution No. 11-140 memorializing the United States House 
     of Representatives to oppose the passage of U.S. Congress 
     H.R. 325, which would make federal wage provisions applicable 
     to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; to the 
     Committee on Resources.
       131. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Hawaii, 
     relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 45 urging the 
     United States government to restore redress funds to 
     compensate individuals of Japanese Ancestry who were unjustly 
     interned during World War II; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       132. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Arizona, relative to House Concurrent Memorial No. 2006 
     memorializing the President of the United States and the 
     Federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer Peter MacDonald to a 
     state prison facility; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       133. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Hawaii, relative to Senate Resolution No. 25 memorializing 
     the United States government to restore redress funds to pay 
     all outstanding Japanese American and Japanese Latin American 
     redress claims and to fulfill the educational mandate of the 
     Act; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       134. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Hawaii, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 7 
     H.D. 1 memorializing the United States Congress to expand and 
     make the visa waiver program permanent; and to add Taiwan, 
     South Korea, and China to the visa waiver program; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
       135. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Nevada, 
     relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 21 memorializing 
     concern regarding proposals redefining the space in which an 
     aircraft may be flown over the Grand Canyon; to the Committee 
     on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       136. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Colorado, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 99-023 
     memorializing the President of the United States and Congress 
     to ensure that no further funding of the United States Army 
     Corps of Engineers should be provided for the Cherry Creek 
     Basin Study until the United States Army Corps of Engineers 
     completes an independent peer review of the National Weather 
     Service data in order to determine the appropriate design 
     flood for the Cherry Creek Basin; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       137. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 01 memorializing 
     Idaho's congressional delegation to support funding for a 
     national veterans cemetery in Idaho to serve veterans in the 
     northwestern states; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       138. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 3 memorializing 
     the Congress to look at repealing the estate and gift tax or 
     to increase the exemption substantially; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       139. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of Nevada, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 12 
     memorializing the Federal Government to invest all surplus 
     money in the Federal Insurance Contributions Act for the 
     benefit of the Social Security system; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       140. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Vermont, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 
     113 memorializing the Congress not to enact laws that might 
     diminish or undermine a unified

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     and stable Social Security system; to the Committee on Ways 
     and Means.
       141. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Hawaii, 
     relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 132 S.D. 1 
     memorializing the United States Environmental Protection 
     Agency to implement the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act 
     using sound science and real-world data from the data call-in 
     process for realistic risk assessments; jointly to the 
     Committees on Agriculture and Commerce.
       142. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Colorado, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 99-29 
     memorializing the President, the Congress, and the government 
     of the United States to take all actions necessary to provide 
     for the common defense and protect on an equal basis all 
     people, resources, and states of the United States from the 
     threat of missile attack, regardless of the physical location 
     of each state of the union; jointly to the Committees on 
     Armed Services and International Relations.
       143. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Hawaii, 
     relative to House Resolution No. 56 H.D. 1 memorializing the 
     United States Environmental Protection Agency to implement 
     the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act using sound science and 
     real-world data from the data call-in process for realistic 
     risk assessments; jointly to the Committees on Commerce and 
     Agriculture.
       144. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Colorado, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 99-12 
     memorializing the United States Bureau of the Census to 
     conduct the 2000 decennial census consistent with the U.S. 
     Supreme Court ruling in the Department of Commerce and Glavin 
     cases, which requires a traditional headcount of the 
     population and bars the use of statistical sampling to create 
     or adjust the count; jointly to the Committees on Government 
     Reform and the Judiciary.
       145. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Colorado, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 99-5 
     memorializing Congress to refrain from enacting any pay 
     increase for members of Congress without an affirmative vote 
     or that takes effect before the following Congress has been 
     elected and fully sworn into office; jointly to the 
     Committees on Government Reform and House Administration.
       146. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Arizona, relative to Senate Concurrent Memorial 1001 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take steps 
     to address the problems of the Medicare reimbursement rates 
     differential between urban and rural areas and attempt to 
     establish a reimbursement system that will result in more 
     equitable health care coverage for seniors in rural areas of 
     the country; jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and 
     Commerce.
       147. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 28 
     memorializing support for the efforts of the U.S. Department 
     of Justice to accomplish the much needed program coordination 
     through the creation of the National Domestic Preparedness 
     Office; jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed 
     Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Commerce, and 
     Agriculture.

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