[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 37 (Monday, March 15, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S1515]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 2:11 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. 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. 3650. An act to establish a National Harmful Algal 
     Bloom and Hypoxia Program, to develop and coordinate a 
     comprehensive and integrated strategy to address harmful 
     algal blooms and hypoxia, and to provide for the development 
     and implementation of comprehensive regional action plans to 
     reduce harmful algal blooms and hypoxia.
       H.R. 4506. An act to authorize the appointment of 
     additional bankruptcy judges, and for other purposes.
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  At 3:08 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that Mr. Schiff, Ms. 
Zoe Lofgren, of California, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Goodlatte, and 
Mr. Sensenbrenner are appointed managers on the part of the House to 
conduct the trial of impeachment of G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., a Judge 
for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, that a message be sent to the Senate to inform the Senate of 
these appointments, and that the managers on the part of the House may 
exhibit the articles of impeachment to the Senate and take all other 
actions necessary in connection with preparation for, and conduct of, 
the trial, which may include the following: (1) Employing legal, 
clerical, and other necessary assistants and incurring such other 
expenses as may be necessary, to be paid from amounts available to the 
Committee on the Judiciary under House Resolution 15, One Hundred 
Eleventh Congress, agreed to January 13, 2009, or any other applicable 
expense resolution on vouchers approved by the Chairman of the 
Committee on the Judiciary. (2) Sending for persons and papers, and 
filing with the Secretary of the Senate, on the part of the House of 
Representatives, any subsequent pleadings which they consider 
necessary.

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