[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 175 (Monday, December 8, 2003)]
[House]
[Pages H12909-H12910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    BILLS PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT

  Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House reports that on November 26, 2003 
he presented to the President of the United States, for his approval, 
the following bills.

       H.R. 421. To reauthorize the United States Institute for 
     Environmental Conflict Resolution, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1367. To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to 
     conduct a loan repayment program regarding the provision of 
     veterinary services in shortage situations, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 1683. To increase, effective as of December 1, 2003, 
     the rates of disability compensation for veterans with 
     service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency 
     and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-
     connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1821. To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. 
     Dorothy Height in recognition of her many contributions to 
     the Nation.
       H.R. 3038. To make certain technical and conforming 
     amendments to correct the Health Care Safety Net Amendments 
     of 2002.
       H.R. 3140. To provide for availability of contact lens 
     prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3166. To designate the facility of the United States 
     Postal Service located at 57 Old Tappan Road in Tappan, New 
     York, as the ``John G. Dow Post Office Building''.
       H.R. 3185. To designate the facility of the United States 
     Postal Service located at 38 Spring Street in Nashua, New 
     Hampshire, as the ``Hugh Gregg Post Office Building''.
       H.R. 3349. To authorize salary adjustments for Justices and 
     judges of the United States for fiscal year 2004.

  Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House reports that on December 2, 2003 he 
presented to the President of the United States, for his approval, the 
following bills.

       H.R. 1828. To halt Syrian support for terrorism, end its 
     occupation of Lebanon, stop its development of weapons of 
     mass destruction, cease its illegal importation of Iraqi oil 
     and illegal shipments of weapons and other military items to 
     Iraq, and by so doing hold Syria accountable for the serious 
     international security problems it has caused in the Middle 
     East, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1904. An act to improve the capacity of the Secretary 
     of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to 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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       H.R. 2115. To amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, 
     and for other purposes.
       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.

  Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House reports that on December 3, 2003, 
he presented to the President of the United States, for his approval, 
the following bills.

       H.J. Res. 80. Appointing the day for the convening of the 
     second session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress.
       H.R. 1437. To improve the United States Code.
       H.R. 1813. To amend the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 
     to authorize appropriations to provide assistance for 
     domestic and foreign centers and programs for the treatment 
     of victims of torture, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2622. To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to 
     prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer 
     disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make 
     improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit 
     information, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3287. 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.
       H.R. 3348. To reauthorize the ban on undetectable firearms.

  Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House reports that on December 5, 2003, 
he presented to the President of the United States, for his approval, 
the following bills.

       H.J. Res. 63. A joint resolution 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 
     amended, between the Government of the United States of 
     America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall 
     Islands, and to appropriate funds to carry out the amended 
     Compacts.''
       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.
       3491. To establish within the Smithsonian Institution the 
     National Museum of African American History and Culture, and 
     for other purposes.

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