[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 38 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H1629-H1630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       79. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Luis F. Crespo High 
     School Camuy, Puerto Rico, relative to a Resolution 
     petitioning the President of the United States and Congress 
     to withdraw the US Navy from the Island of Vieques, return 
     the lands occupied by the US Navy to the people of Vieques, 
     to condemn the murder of David Sanes and total indemnity for 
     the damages caused by military occupation; to the Committee 
     on Armed Services.
       80. Also, a petition of Mr. Gregory D. Watson of Austin, 
     Texas, relative to a Resolution petitioning Congress to 
     direct the Congressional Research Service division of the 
     Library of Congress to conduct an exhaustive inventory of the 
     legislative records of all 50 states--dating back to the 
     beginning of statehood in each individual state--in order to 
     ascertain all applications (and recissions of applications), 
     pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution, made 
     by the legislatures thereof, for conventions to propose, 
     subject to ratification, amendments to the Federal 
     Constitution; and to publish the results of such 
     comprehensive inventory; to the Committee on House 
     Administration.
       81. Also, a petition of Colorado Water Conservation Board, 
     Department of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado, relative to 
     a Resolution petitioning the President of the

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     United States and the House of Representatives to support HR-
     3112 and the construction of the modified Animas-La Plata 
     Project; to the Committee on Resources.
       82. Also, a petition of National Conference of Lieutenant 
     Governors, relative to a Resolution petitioning the United 
     States Congress to amend the Internal Revenue Code to 
     increase the annual state ceiling on tax-exempt Private 
     Activity Bonds and to index the ceiling to inflation; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.

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