[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 13, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H5582-H5583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
Clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       34. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Chicago City 
     Council, relative to a resolution urging the United States 
     Congress to

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     include in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
     provisions that will allow state and local grant recipients 
     to follow state and local procurement practices rather than 
     federally required laws and rules for grant recipients, 
     including without limitation the using of M/WBEs rather than 
     DBEs; to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
       35. Also, a petition of the Community Board No. 1 of New 
     York, NY, relative to a resolution supporting the 9/11 Health 
     and Compensation Act of 2009 (H.R. 847), which would provide 
     necessary services to those directly affected by the 
     terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001, including 
     those who lived, worked, volunteered and attended school in 
     Lower Manhattan; jointly to the Committees on Energy and 
     Commerce and the Judiciary.