[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 187 (Friday, December 7, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S15030-S15031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 9:03 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
agrees to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 6) to reduce 
our Nation's dependency on foreign oil by investing in

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clean, renewable, and alternative energy resources, promoting new 
emerging energy technologies, developing greater efficiency, and 
creating a Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve to invest 
in alternative energy, and for other purposes; with amendments, in 
which it requests the concurrence of the Senate.
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  At 1:28 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 2085. An act to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to convey to the McGee Creek Authority certain 
     facilities of the McGee Creek Project, Oklahoma, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 3505. An act to make various technical and clerical 
     amendments to the Federal securities laws.
       H.R. 4253. An act to improve and expand small business 
     assistance programs for veterans of the armed forces and 
     military reservists, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that pursuant to section 1238(b)(3) of the 
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2001, (22 U.S.C. 7002) amended by division P of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Resolution, 2003 (22 U.S.C. 6901), the Minority Leader 
appoints the following members to the United States-China Economic and 
Security Review Commission: Mr. Peter T.R. Brookes of Virginia (re-
appointment) and Mr. Daniel M. Slane of Ohio.

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