[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 169 (Thursday, November 20, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S15281-S15282]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 2:27 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, without amendment:

       S. 117. An act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to 
     sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and 
     for other purposes;
       S. 286. An act to revise and extend the Birth Defects 
     Prevention Act of 1998;
       S. 650. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act to authorize the Food and Drug Administration to 
     require certain research into drugs used in pediatric 
     patients;
       S. 1685. An act to extend and expand the basic pilot 
     program for employment eligibility verification, and for 
     other purposes; and
       S. 1720. An act to provide for Federal court proceedings in 
     Plano, Texas.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
concurrent resolution, without amendment:

       S. Con. Res. 48. Concurrent resolution supporting the goals 
     and idelas of ``National Epilepsy Awareness Month'' and 
     urging support for epilepsy research and service programs.

  The message further announced that the House passed the following 
bills and joint resolution in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 421. An act to reauthorize the United States Institute 
     for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and for other 
     purposes;
       H.R. 1006. An act to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 
     to further the conservation of certain wildlife species;
       H.R. 2218. An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act to provide for the regulation of all contact 
     lenses as medical devices, and for other purposes;
       H.R. 2420. An act to improve transparency relating to the 
     fees and costs that mutual fund investors incur and to 
     improve corporate governance of mutual funds;
       H.R. 3140. An act to provide for availability of contact 
     lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes;
       H.R. 3491. An act to establish within the Smithsonian 
     Institution the National Museum of African American History 
     and Culture, and for other purposes; and
       H.J. Res. 78. An act making further continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other 
     purposes.

  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. 83. Concurrent resolution honoring the victims 
     of the Cambodian genocide that took place from April 1975 to 
     January 1979;
       H. Con. Res. 288. Concurrent resolution honoring Seeds of 
     Peace for its promotion of understanding, reconciliation, 
     acceptance, coexistence, and peace among youth from the 
     Middle East and other regions of conflict; and
       H. Con. Res. 320. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of the Congress regarding the importance of 
     motorsports.

  The message further announced that the House agree to the report of 
the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2417) to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the United States Government, the Community 
Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and 
Disability System, and for other purposes.
  At 6:51 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
agree to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2297) to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits under laws 
administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other 
purposes.
  The message also announced that the House agree to the amendments of 
the Senate to the resolution (H.J. Res. 63) to approve the ``Compact of 
Free Association, as amended between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Federated States of 
Micronesia'', and the ``Compact of Free Association, as

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amended between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands'', and otherwise to 
amend Public Law 99-239, and to appropriate for the purposes of amended 
Public Law 99-239 for fiscal years ending on or before September 30, 
2023, and for other purposes.

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