[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 146 (Monday, October 29, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H7358]
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:

       38. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Municipal 
     Assembly of San Juan, Puerto Rico, relative to Resolution No. 
     32 petitioning the United States Congress to express our most 
     forceful rejection and disgust for the shameful words written 
     by Mrs. Celeste Benitez on her opinion column titled, 
     ``Welcome to the 21st Century,'' published on a local 
     newspaper on Friday, September 14, 2001, in regard to the 
     terrorist attack against our nation on Tuesday, September 14, 
     2001; to the Committee on International Relations.
       39. Also,a petition of the Municipal Assembly of San Juan, 
     Puerto Rico, relative to Resolution No. 29 petitioning the 
     United States Congress to express the condolences of the 
     Government and Citizens of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the 
     President and Government of the United States for the tragic 
     developments at the World Trade Center in New York City and 
     in Washington, D.C.; and to express our most emphatic 
     repudiation to those acts; to the Committee on Transportation 
     and Infrastructure.