[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 160 (Tuesday, December 7, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       176. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the American Bar 
     Association, relative to Recommendation 111 urging state, 
     territorial, and tribal governments to eliminate all of their 
     legal barriers to civil marriage between two persons of the 
     same sex; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       177. Also, a petition of the American Bar Association, 
     relative to Recommendation 100C urging federal, state, 
     territorial, tribal and local governments to provide funding 
     to state and federal public defender offices and legal aid 
     programs; to the Committee on the Judiciary.