[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 149 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S9023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:57 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Zapata, 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. 1594. An act to designate the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, as the 
     Michael A. Marzano Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient 
     Clinic.
       H.R. 3019. An act to establish an Office of Housing 
     Counseling to carry out and coordinate the responsibilities 
     of the Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding 
     counseling on homeownership and rental housing issues, to 
     make grants to entities for providing such counseling, to 
     launch a national housing counseling advertising campaign, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5772. An act to amend section 811 of the Cranston-
     Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to improve the 
     program under such section for supportive housing for persons 
     with disabilities.
       H.R. 6627. An act to authorize the Board of Regents of the 
     Smithsonian Institution to carry out certain construction 
     projects, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 6842. An act to restore Second Amendment rights in the 
     District of Columbia.
       H.R. 6893. An act to amend parts B and E of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act to connect and support relative 
     caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, 
     provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve 
     incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 6899. An act to advance the national security 
     interests of the United States by reducing its dependency on 
     oil through renewable and clean, alternative fuel 
     technologies while building a bridge to the future through 
     expanded access to Federal oil and natural gas resources, 
     revising the relationship between the oil and gas industry 
     and the consumers who own those resources and deserve a fair 
     return from the development of publicly owned oil and gas, 
     ending tax subsidies for large oil and gas companies, and 
     facilitating energy efficiencies in the building, housing, 
     and transportation sectors, and for other purposes.

                          ____________________