[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 170 (Friday, November 21, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S15405]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED

  The message also announced that the Speaker has signed the following 
enrolled bills:

       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.
       S. 1720. An act to provide for Federal court proceedings in 
     Plano, Texas;
       S. 1824. An act to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     to reauthorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 
     and for other purposes; and
       H.R. 3182. An act to reauthorize the adoption incentive 
     payments program under part E of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act, and for other purposes.

  The enrolled bills were signed subsequently by the President pro 
tempore (Mr. Stevens).
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  At 12:12 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 bill in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 135. An act to establish the ``Twenty-First Century 
     Water Commission'' to study and develop recommendations for a 
     comprehensive water strategy to address future water needs.
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  At 3:17 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 report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing 
votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill 
(H.R. 1904) to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior plan and conduct hazardous fuels 
reduction projects on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land 
Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and 
certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance 
efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and 
rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the 
landscape, and for other purposes.
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  At 5:20 p.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. 1152. An act to reauthorize the United States Fire 
     Administration, and for other purposes.
       S. 1156. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     improve and enhance provision of health care for veterans, to 
     authorize major construction projects and other facilities 
     matters for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to enhance 
     and improve authorities relating to the administration of 
     personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for 
     other purposes.
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  At 9:43 p.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 joint resolution, in which it requests the 
concurrence of the Senate:

       H.J. Res. 79. Joint resolution making further continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other 
     purposes.

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