[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 80 (Thursday, May 15, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S4281]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 12:14 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
disagrees to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 4040) to 
establish consumer product safety standards and other safety 
requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize 
the Consumer Product Safety Commission; it agrees to the conference 
asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, 
and appoints Mr. Dingell, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Rush, Ms. DeGette, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Whitfield of Kentucky, and Mr. 
Stearns as managers of the conference on the part of the House.
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  At 5:20 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
agrees to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2642) making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for fiscal year ending September 30, 
2008, and for other purposes, with amendments, in which it requests the 
concurrence of the Senate.

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