[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 127 (Friday, October 8, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H9050]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       454. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of California, relative to Assembly Joint 
     Resolution No. 65 expressing support for the resolutoin of 
     the ongoing negotiations between the Soboba Band of Luiseno 
     Indians, the Eastern Municipal Water District and the Lake 
     Hemet Municipal Water District, the Metropolitan Water 
     District of Southern California, and the United States 
     Department of the Interior to reach a water and land 
     settlement that is consistent with federal law, memorializing 
     the United States Department of the Interior to give its full 
     support to the settlement legislation, and memorializing the 
     United States to the Committee on Resources.
       455. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the 
     Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, relative to Senate Concurrent 
     Resolution No. 107 consigning the public policy of the 
     Legislature of Puerto Rico in facing and attending to the 
     urgent need to review the political relations between Puerto 
     Rico and the United States through a Constitutional Assembly 
     on Status elected by the people in the exercise of the 
     national right to self-determination and sovereignty, and to 
     initiate its organizational process; to the Committee on 
     Resources.
       456. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 63 
     memorializing the President and Congress of the United States 
     to enact legislation to include State Highway Route 99 in the 
     interstate highway system; to the Committee on Transportation 
     and Infrastructure.
       457. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 36 
     memorializing the President and Congress of the United States 
     to support legislative action to immediately remove the 
     discriminatory portion of Section 143(l)(4) of the Internal 
     Revenue Code so that today's veterans and their families 
     might enjoy the same benefits as their earlier counterparts; 
     to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       458. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 62 
     memorializing the California delegation of the United States 
     Senate and House of Representatives to sponsor and support 
     legislation to repeal any Medicare provision that would 
     prohibit the federal government from negotiating fair drug 
     prices as contained in a section of the federal Medicare 
     Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 
     (Pub. L. 108-173); jointly to the Committees on Energy and 
     Commerce and Ways and Means.

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