[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 24, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H4540]
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:

       169. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the General 
     Assembly of the State of Delaware, relative to House 
     Concurrent Resolution No. 12 memorializing the United States 
     Congress to enact H.R. 20, that was introduced on January 3, 
     2001, and that modifies provisions of the Clean Air Act, 
     regarding the oxygen content of reformulated gasoline and 
     improves the regulation of the fuel additive methyl tertiary 
     butyl ether (MTBE); to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       170. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35 
     memorializing the United States Congress to require federally 
     controlled emission sources to reduce their emissions by the 
     same percentages and on the same schedule as state-controlled 
     sources; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       171. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 84 
     memorializing the United States Congress to expand the number 
     of and funding for federally funded community health centers 
     and other federal community-based safety-net programs 
     specifically directed to poor and medically underserved 
     communities in states with the highest numbers of uninsured 
     residents; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       172. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 214 
     memorializing the United States Congress to establish a 
     separate Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for the Texas-
     Mexico border region; to the Committee on Energy and 
     Commerce.
       173. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 28 
     memorializing the United States Congress to repeal the 
     federal regulation relating to the three-shell limit and the 
     magazine plug requirement found in 50 C.F.R. Section 20-21; 
     to the Committee on Resources.
       174. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 51 
     memorializing the United States Congress to urge the 
     Department of the Interior to reconsider the necessity of 
     designating the Arkansas River shiner as a threatened species 
     and the necessity of designating critical habitat in Texas 
     for the Arkansas River shiner; to the Committee on Resources.
       175. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 256 
     memorializing the United States Congress to relocate the U.S. 
     Border Patrol Training Academy to the southwest Texas border 
     region; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       176. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 10 
     memorializing the United States Congress to create a federal 
     category under the NAFTA agreement, for NAFTA traffic-related 
     infrastructure damage, to provide counties and municipalities 
     with funding for commercial vehicle weigh stations within the 
     20-mile commercial border zone; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
       177. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 37 
     memorializing the United States Congress to provide tax 
     credits to individuals buying private health insurance; to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means.
       178. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 77 
     memorializing the United States Congress to amend provisions 
     of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added by PL 106-230, 
     to exempt state and local political committees that are 
     required to report to their respective states from 
     notification and reporting requirements imposed by PL 106-
     230; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       179. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 104 
     memorializing the United States Congress to pass legislation 
     amending the Internal Revenue Code to give each person who 
     serves on a jury under certain circumstances or in certain 
     localities a $40 tax credit per day of service and to give 
     each person who is summoned and appears, but does not serve, 
     a one-time $40 tax credit for that day; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       180. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 98 
     memorializing the United States Congress to make the problem 
     of subsidized Canadian lumber imports a top priority; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
       181. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 226 
     memorializing the United States Congress to amend the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the issuance of 
     tax-exempt facility bonds for the purpose of financing air 
     pollution control facilities in nonattainment areas and to 
     provide that such tax-exempt facility bonds issued during the 
     years of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, or 2007 for the construction 
     of such air pollution control facilities not be subject to 
     the volume cap requirements; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
       182. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 22 
     memorializing the United States Congress to urge the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to provide maximum 
     flexibility to the states in the implementation of federal 
     environmental programs and regulations; jointly to the 
     Committees on Energy and Commerce and Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       183. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 210 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact the 
     Railroad Retirement and Survivors' Improvement Act of 2001; 
     jointly to the Committees on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure and Ways and Means.

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