[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 168 (Wednesday, November 19, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S15183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 10:48 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, without amendment:

       S. 254. An act to revise the boundary of the Kaloko-
     Honokohau National Historical Park in the State of Hawaii, 
     and for other purposes;
       S. 867. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 710 Wick Lane in Billings, 
     Montana, as the ``Ronald Reagan Post Office Building''; and
       S. 1718. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 3710 West 73rd Terrace in 
     Prairie Village, Kansas, as the ``Senator James B. Pearson 
     Post Office''.

  The message also announced that the House passed the following bills 
in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 280. An act to establish certain National Heritage 
     Areas, and for other purposes;
       H.R. 1189. An act to increase the waiver requirement for 
     certain local matching requirements for grants provided to 
     American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth 
     of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes;
       H.R. 1204. An act to amend the National Wildlife Refuge 
     System Administration Act of 1966 to establish requirements 
     for the award of concessions in the National Wildlife Refuge 
     System, to provide for maintenance and repair of properties 
     located in the System by concessionaires authorized to use 
     such properties, and for other purposes;
       H.R. 1274. An act to direct the Administrator of General 
     Services to convey to Fresno County, California, the existing 
     Federal courthouse in that county;
       H.R. 1651. An act to provide for the exchange of land 
     within the Sierra National Forest, California, and for other 
     purposes;
       H.R. 1658. An act to amend the Railroad Right-of-Way 
     Conveyance Validation Act to validate additional conveyances 
     of certain lands in the State of California that form part of 
     the right-of-way granted by the United States to facilitate 
     the construction of the transcontinental railway, and for 
     other purposes;
       H.R. 2130. An act to redesignate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 121 Kinderkamack Road in 
     River Edge, New Jersey, as the ``New Bridge Landing Post 
     Office'';
       H.R. 2907. An act to provide for a land exchange in the 
     State of Arizona between the Secretary of Agriculture and 
     Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership;
       H.R. 3287. An act to award congressional gold medals 
     posthumously on behalf of Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Harry 
     and Eliza Briggs, and Levi Pearson in recognition of their 
     contributions to the Nation as pioneers in the effort to 
     desegregate public schools that led directly to the landmark 
     desegregation case of Brown et al. v. the Board of Education 
     of Topeka et al; and
       H.R. 3300. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 15500 Pearl Road in 
     Strongsville, Ohio, as the ``Walter F. Ehrnfelt, Jr. Post 
     Office Building.''

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

       H. Con. Res 69. Concurrent resolution expressing the sense 
     of Congress that Althea Gibson should be recognized for her 
     ground breaking achievements in athletics and her commitment 
     to ending racial discrimination and prejudice within the 
     world of sports; and
       H. Con. Res. 313. Concurrent resolution to urge the 
     President, on behalf of the United States, to present the 
     Presidential Medal of Freedom to His Holiness, Pope John Paul 
     II, in recognition of his significant, enduring, and historic 
     contributions to the causes of freedom, human dignity, and 
     peace and to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of His Holiness' 
     inauguration of his ministry as Bishop of Rome and Supreme 
     Pastor of the Catholic Church.

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