[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 163 (Saturday, December 17, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H12168]
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                               MEMORIALS

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

       214. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent 
     Resolution No. 69 memorializing the Congress of the United 
     States to take such actions as are necessary to provide 
     federal financial assistance to aid in rebuilding the 
     investor-owed utility systems that are indispensible to the 
     recovery efforts of the state of Louisiana and the city of 
     New Orleans; to the Committee on Financial Services.
       215. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 47 
     urging the Congress of the United States to encourage the 
     banking industry to assist senior citizens and disabled 
     persons without identification due to Hurricanes Katrina and 
     Rita with negotiating their Social Security Supplemental 
     Security Income checks; to the Committee on Financial 
     Services.
       216. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 43 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact 
     comprehensive natural disaster insurance legislation 
     affecting financial capacity that will address, encourage, 
     and support insurance company reserving for future 
     catastrophes by making such reserves deductible for federal 
     income tax purposes; to the Committee on Financial Services.
       217. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 42 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to develop and provide innovative 
     solutions for financing housing in parishes in Louisiana 
     devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; to the Committee 
     on Financial Services.
       218. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 41 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to enjoin the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency from mandating that structures rebuilt in 
     the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina be elevated; to 
     the Committee on Financial Services.
       219. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 28 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to allow the Stafford Act to provide 
     for payment of regular pay to essential personnel; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       220. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 72 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to task the 
     Government Accountability Office with a complete audit of 
     expenditures by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on 
     Katrina and Rita recovery efforts in Louisiana; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       221. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 53 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to amend the Robert T. Stafford 
     Disaster Relief and Energency Assistance Act, or suspend 
     provisions thereof, with respect to the requirement that the 
     state of Louisiana reimburse the Federal Emergecy Management 
     Agency for a portion of the other assistance payments made to 
     citizens of Louisiana due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rite; to 
     the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       222. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 50 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to forgive the debt of Louisiana's 
     local governments resulting from seven hundred fifty million 
     dollars in loans made available to them as disaster relief; 
     to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       223. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 49 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to forgive the 3.7 billion dollars 
     that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimates 
     that Louisiana owes FEMA for hurricane relief; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       224. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 36 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to waive the nonfederal or local 
     portion of any cost-sharing agreement of funding of a levee 
     reconstruction and improvement project; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       225. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 34 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States and the 
     Louisiana Congressional delegation to direct the United 
     States Army Corps of Engineers not to engage in dredging 
     activities on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and to begin 
     the necessary process to return the waterway to wetlands 
     marsh status; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       226. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Louisiana, relative to House Resolution No. 18 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enjoin the 
     United States Army Corps of Engineers from engaging any 
     contractor in the reconstruction of the levees in the New 
     Orleans area if investigations of levee failures during 
     Hurricane Katrina and Rita indicate that such contractor 
     performed substandard design or construction work on a 
     portion of a levee that failed; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       227. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 44 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact a 
     health insurance premium reimbursement program and a federal 
     income tax credit for the health insurance premiums for 
     affected victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita; jointly to 
     the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and 
     Education and the Workforce.

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