[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 133 (Tuesday, October 5, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11950-S11951]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE


                         enrolled bills signed

  At 9:32 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker 
has signed the following enrolled bills:

       S. 1606. An act to reenact chapter 12 of title 11, United 
     States Code, and for other purposes.
       S. 323. An act to redesignate the Black Canyon of the 
     Gunnison National Monument as a national park and establish 
     the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 2084. An act making appropriations for the Department 
     of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

  The enrolled bills were signed subsequently by the President pro 
tempore (Mr. Thurmond).

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  At 11:05 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 356. An act to provide for the conveyance of certain 
     property from the United States to Stainislaus County, 
     California.
       H.R. 1451. An act to establish the Abraham Lincoln 
     Bicentennial Commission.
       H.R. 1794. An act concerning the participation of Taiwan in 
     the World Health Organization (WHO).
       H.R. 2401. An act to amend the U.S. Holocaust Assets 
     Commission Act of 1998 to extend the period by which the 
     final report is due and to authorize additional funding.
       H.R. 2607. An act to promote the development of the 
     commercial space transportation industry, to authorize 
     appropriations for the Office of the Associate Administrator 
     for Commercial Space Transportation, to authorize 
     appropriations for the Office of Space Commercialization, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 2681. An act to establish a program, coordinated by 
     the National Transportation Safety Board, of assistance to 
     families of passengers involved in rail passenger accidents.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
concurrent resolutions in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 171. Concurrent resolution congratulating the 
     American Public Transit Association for 25 years of 
     commendable service to the transit industry and the Nation.
       H. Con. Res. 191. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of the Congress that the Brooklyn Museum of Art should 
     not receive Federal funds unless it closes its exhibits 
     featuring works of a sacrilegious nature.

  The message further announced that the House disagrees to the 
amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2466) making appropriations 
for the Departments of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, and agrees to 
the conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two 
Houses thereon; and appoints Mr. Regula, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Skeen, Mr. 
Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Kingston, Mr. 
Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Young of Florida, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Murtha, 
Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Hinchey, and Mr. Obey as 
managers of the conference on the part of the House.
  The message also announced that the House disagrees to the amendment 
of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2684) making appropriations for the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing Development, and for sundry 
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and for 
offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other 
purposes, and agrees to the conference asked by the Senate on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon; and appoints Mr. Walsh, 
Mr. DeLay, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Wicker, 
Mrs. Northup, Mr. Sununu, Mr. Young of Florida, Mr. Mollohan, Ms. 
Kaptur, Mrs. Meek of Florida, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Cramer, 
and Mr. Obey as the managers of the conference on the part of the 
House.
  The message further announced that pursuant to section 301 of Public 
Law 104-1, the Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House of 
Representatives and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the United 
States Senate appoints jointly the following individuals to a 5-year 
term to the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance: Mr. Alan V. 
Friedman of California, Ms. Susan S. Robfogel of New York, and Ms. 
Barbara Childs Wallace of Mississippi.

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