[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 4, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H2979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       18. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the City Commission 
     of the City of Hollywood, Florida, relative to Resolution No. 
     R-2005-97, supporting H.C.R. 203 and S. 94, concurrent 
     resolutions ratifying the proposed amendment of the 
     Constitution of the United States relating to equal rights 
     for men and women; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       19. Also, a petition of the Office of the Mayor and City of 
     Lauderdale Lakes Commission, Florida, relative to Resolution 
     No. 05-48 petitioning Congress to maintain the Community 
     Development Financial Institutions program, as well as the 
     Internal Revenue Code provision for new market tax credits, 
     as a viable tool to encourage private sector involvement in 
     the Nation's continuing efforts at local community 
     redevelopment and to take all steps necessary and appropriate 
     to fund the Community Development Banking and Financial 
     Institutions Act budget appropriation of at least eighty 
     million dollars; jointly to the Committees on Financial 
     Services and Ways and Means.

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