[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 126 (Wednesday, September 9, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S9183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 2:16 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that it has passed 
the following joint resolution, without amendment:

       S. J. Res. 9. Joint resolution providing for the 
     appointment of France A. Cordova as a citizen regent of the 
     Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 310. An act to provide for the conveyance of 
     approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National 
     Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of 
     the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1043. An act to provide for a land exchange involving 
     certain National Forest System lands in the Mendocino 
     National Forest in the State of California, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 1287. An act to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to enter into a partnership with the Porter County 
     Convention, Recreation and Visitor Commission regarding the 
     use of the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center as a visitor 
     center for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 1345. An act to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
     eliminate the discriminatory treatment of the District of 
     Columbia under the provisions of law commonly referred to as 
     the ``Hatch Act''.
       H.R. 1858. An act to provide for a boundary adjustment and 
     land conveyances involving Roosevelt National Forest, 
     Colorado, to correct the effects of an erroneous land survey 
     that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the Crystal Lakes 
     Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest 
     System land, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2004. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, 
     Michigan, as the ``Akron Veterans Memorial Post Office''.
       H.R. 2760. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 1615 North Wilcox Avenue in 
     Los Angeles, California, as the ``Johnny Grant Hollywood Post 
     Office Building.''

  The message further announced that pursuant to section 112 of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412), and the order of the House of January 
6, 2009, the Speaker appoints the following members on the part of the 
House of Representatives to the Board of Directors of the National 
Urban Air Toxics Research Center: Mrs. Herminia Palacio, M.D., M.P.H., 
of Bellaire, Texas and Mr. John Walke of Washington, D.C.

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